That looks like just what I need, thank you for the quick response. The closest I could find in the FAQ is this entry which has a broken link to the second entry.
http://www.open-mpi.org/faq/?category=running#mpirun-prefix http://www.open-mpi.org/faq/?category=mpi-aps#why-no-rpath I need to avoid modifying ld.so.conf or setting up aliases so openmpi can be properly loaded and unloaded with the modules command. Ashley, On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 09:37 -0500, Tim Prins wrote: > Hi Ashley, > > Yes, you can have this done automatically. Just use the > '--enable-mpirun-prefix-by-default' option to configure. > > I'm actually a bit surprised this is not in the FAQ. I'll have to add it. > > Hope this helps, > > Tim > > Ashley Pittman wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I work for medium sized UK based ISV and am packaging open-mpi so that > > is can be made available as an option to our users, so far I've been > > very impressed by how smoothly things have gone but I've got one problem > > which doesn't seem to be covered by the FAQ. > > > > We install openmpi to /opt/openmpi-1.2.5 and are using the modules > > command to select which mpi to use, the modules command correctly sets > > PATH to pick up mpicc and mpirun on the head node however the issue > > comes with running a job, users need to specify -prefix on the mpirun > > command line. Is there a way to specify this in the environment so I > > could make it happen automatically as part of the modules environment? > > > > I've searched the archives for this, the closest I can find is this > > exchange in 2006, if I specify a full path to mpirun then it does the > > right thing but is there a way to extend this functionality to the case > > where mpirun is run from path? > > http://www.open-mpi.org/community/lists/users/2006/01/0480.php > > > > Yours, Ashley Pittman. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > users mailing list > > us...@open-mpi.org > > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > us...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users
