On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 17:17:09 -0700, Brian Barrett <brbar...@open-mpi.org>
wrote:
I'm not sure we could do something like this internally in Open MPI's
build system and we definitely don't have the developer time to look
into it in the foreseeable future.
Well, from my knowledge about it, it's pretty much impossible to fix from
your end, even if you did have the time. But I wanted to make sure there
weren't any obvious workarounds at this point in time, and you've been
quite helpful.
Thinking about it some more, there is one even more icky solution to
the problem. Again, this is not something the Open MPI development
team can put cycles into. Last I heard / looked, the TM interface
and the wire protocol to the pbs_mom hadn't changed much in years and
years. There's an open source version of PBS out there that includes
code to implement this wire protocol. There's no reason Open MPI pls
and ras components couldn't be developed that talked directly to the
pbs_mom rather than using the published API. Nasty, yes. But it
might work. And since the PBS Pro libraries wouldn't need to be
linked in, the -fPIC problem is avoided.
This at earns an evil eyebrow award.
If you're interested in having a stab at either work-around approach,
let me know (might be easiest to post to the devel mailing list so
that we don't bore all the users with the awful details). I'd be
interested in seeing if something couldn't be done between now and
when Altair releases PBS Pro libraries for the Opteron compiled with -
fPIC.
I'll see what I can do to stab this one a few times. But after this post,
I'll it all on the dev list. (I figure I might as well finish the
thread/message in -users, so when a user in my same situation goes
searching through the archives...) Well, that and I need to subscribe to
-dev.
--
Troy Telford
