Also, you might want to use this configure option to simplify switching: --enable-mpirun-prefix-by-default
For more details, see: ./configure --help On 9/14/07, Reuti <re...@staff.uni-marburg.de> wrote: > Hi, > > Am 13.09.2007 um 23:29 schrieb Francesco Pietra: > > > Is it possible to have two different compilations of openmpi on the > > same > > machine (dual-opterons, Debian Linux etch)? > > > > On that parallel computer sander.MPI (Amber9) and openmpi 1.2.3 > > have both been > > compiled with Intel Fortran 9.1.036. > > > > Now, I wish to install DOCK6 on this machine and I am advised that > > it should be > > better compiled on GNU compilers. As to openmpi I could install the > > Debian > > package, which is GNU compiled. Are conflicts between the two > > installation > > foreseeable? Although I don't have experience with DOCK, I suspect > > that certain > > procedures with DOCK call sander.MPI into play. > > > > I rule out the alternative of compiling Amber9 with GNU compilers, > > which will > > run slower. > > this is no problem. Instead of using any prebuilt package, compile > and install the two different versions of OMPI on your own, and use > two different locations for them, which you can achieve by e.g.: > > ./configure --prefix=/opt/my_location_a > > and a different location of course for the other compilation. If you > now compile your application, be sure to get the correct one of mpicc > etc. in /opt/my_location_a/bin and also use this specific mpiexec > therein later on by adjusting the $PATH accordingly. > > As we have only two different versions, we don't use the mentioned > "modules" package for now, but hardcode the appropriate PATH in the > jobscript for our queuing system. > > --- Reuti > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > us...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users > -- Tim Mattox, Ph.D. - http://homepage.mac.com/tmattox/ tmat...@gmail.com || timat...@open-mpi.org I'm a bright... http://www.the-brights.net/