[mpich-discuss] Building MPE for use with OpenMPI
Jeff Hammond
jeff.science at gmail.com
Tue Dec 1 09:03:05 CST 2015
Herbert:
Please try
https://github.com/jeffhammond/mpich/tree/hammond-mpi2-deprecated-functions-noconst
and let me know if you see any problems.
Best,
Jeff
On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 5:46 AM, Schilling, Herbert W. (GRC-VE00) <
hschilling at nasa.gov> wrote:
> Hi Jeff and Pavan,
>
> Thanks for all the help on this. Jeff, when you have the fix up there, I
> can give it a shot!
>
>
> On Dec 1, 2015, at 1:15 AM, Jeff Hammond <jeff.science at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Facepalm. Indeed, changing the header but not the implementation was
> pretty dumb on my part. I'll fix that tomorrow.
>
> I have no opinion on the ABI situation, particularly since I know there
> are other folks that Intel that do.
>
> Jeff
>
> On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 9:00 PM, Balaji, Pavan <balaji at anl.gov> wrote:
>
>>
>> Thanks, Jeff. The actual function definitions should be modified as
>> well, which your patch seems to miss.
>>
>> But I think the potentially time consuming part is to get buy-in from all
>> the ABI consortium folks for this change. It doesn't exactly break ABI for
>> applications, but will be an annoying change for tools. Ken is looking
>> into this.
>>
>> -- Pavan
>>
>> > On Nov 30, 2015, at 10:54 PM, Jeff Hammond <jeff.science at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Pavan:
>> >
>> > See hammond-mpi2-deprecated-functions-noconst branch on mpich-review.
>> I found three functions where this change should be made. I do not know if
>> that is the full list, so someone should verify.
>> >
>> > Best,
>> >
>> > Jeff
>> >
>> > On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 8:08 PM, Balaji, Pavan <balaji at anl.gov> wrote:
>> >
>> > MPI_Type_struct is not a part of the MPI standard anymore and is
>> replaced by MPI_Type_create_struct. Both MPICH and Open MPI decided to
>> retain it, but followed different directions for it. MPICH decided to
>> follow the same convention as MPI_Type_create_struct with the const
>> additions. Open MPI decided to keep the old prototypes as is.
>> >
>> > Unfortunately, MPE got stuck in between the two. The best approach
>> would be to simply remove those functions from MPE and this problem just
>> goes away. Would you be able to do that and contribute a patch?
>> >
>> > More generally, I think MPICH was overzealous in trying to constify
>> prototypes for the deleted functions. It should have just left them as
>> they are, like what Open MPI did. We'll figure out what to do about that
>> internally, but that's not going to be a quick change because of ABI and
>> other such stuff.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > -- Pavan
>> >
>> > > On Nov 30, 2015, at 8:14 PM, Schilling, Herbert W. (GRC-VE00) <
>> hschilling at nasa.gov> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Hi,
>> > >
>> > > I am trying to build MPE for use with OpenMPI. I built from source
>> Version 1.10.1 of OpenMPI.
>> > >
>> > > I am using this version of MPE
>> ftp://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/mpi/mpe/mpe2.tar.gz
>> > >
>> > > Should this work fine? I followed the instructions to build like
>> this:
>> > >
>> > > ${MPE_SRC_DIR}/configure MPI_CC=${OPENMPI_INSTALL_DIR}/bin/mpicc \
>> > > CC=<C_COMPILER_used_to_build_OpenMPI> \
>> > > MPI_F77=${OPENMPI_INSTALL_DIR}/bin/mpif77
>> \
>> > >
>> F77=<FORTRAN_COMPILER_used_to_build_OpenMPI> \
>> > > --with-java2=/usr/local/j2sdk-1.4.2
>> > > --prefix=<MPE_INSTALL_DIR>
>> > > make
>> > > make install
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > I keep running into problems with conflicting declarations
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > log_mpi_core.c:5611: error: conflicting types for 'MPI_Type_struct'
>> > > /u/hschilli/local/include/mpi.h:1796: error: previous declaration of
>> 'MPI_Type_struct' was here
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > I think the issue is that MPE's declaration uses some const
>> qualifiers while OpenMPI does not.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > I tried hacking my way through this with the macro
>> > >
>> > > HAVE_CONST_IN_MPI_DECL
>> > > and MPE_CONST but no luck so far.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > What am I doing wrong?
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Thanks in advance.
>> > >
>> > > ---------
>> > > Herb Schilling
>> > > Scientific Applications and Visualization Team
>> > > http://ocio.grc.nasa.gov/gvis
>> > > Office of the Chief Information Officer
>> > > NASA Glenn Research Center
>> > > hschilling at nasa.gov
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
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