Received from Brian Barrett on Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 10:50:09AM EDT: > On Aug 21, 2007, at 10:52 PM, Lev Givon wrote: > > > (Running ompi_info after installing the build confirms the absence of > > said components). My concern, unsurprisingly, is motivated by a desire > > to use OpenMPI on an xgrid cluster (i.e., not with rsh/ssh); unless I > > am misconstruing the above observations, building OpenMPI with > > --enable-static seems to preclude this. Should xgrid functionality > > still be present when OpenMPI is built with --enable-static? > > Ah, yes. Do to some issues with our build system, you have to build > shared libraries to use the XGrid support. > > Brian
It might be desirable to make a note of this in the FAQ (http://www.open-mpi.org/faq/?category=building#build-rte) or the package README. Thanks, L.G.
