FWIW, my ARM contact tells me that he uses a native ARM Linux distro explicitly 
to avoid all the complexities of cross-compiling...  :-\


On Apr 25, 2011, at 11:29 AM, Jeff Squyres wrote:

> There's some extra special mojo that needs to be supplied when 
> cross-compiling Open MPI (e.g., a file that specifies all the ./configure 
> answers for tests that it can't run in a cross-compiling environment).  
> 
> The wiki page Ralph was talking about was referring to instructions on how to 
> create this answer file.  I can't seem to find it, either.
> 
> Brian -- any idea what happened to that wiki page?
> 
> I've pinged our ARM contact to see how he compiles OMPI for the ARM platform.
> 
> 
> 
> On Apr 25, 2011, at 10:00 AM, Fernando Dutra Fagundes Macedo wrote:
> 
>> I tried  1.5.2 and 1.5.3.
>> 
>> -----Mensagem original-----
>> De: users-boun...@open-mpi.org [mailto:users-boun...@open-mpi.org] Em nome 
>> de Barrett, Brian W
>> Enviada em: segunda-feira, 25 de abril de 2011 10:53
>> Para: Open MPI Users
>> Assunto: Re: [OMPI users] RES: RES: Error with ARM target
>> 
>> --host is the correct option, but the host string "arm" is not valid; it 
>> needs to be a proper triple, something like "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu".
>> Either way, ARM was not a supported platform in the 1.4.x release; the 
>> earliest version of Open MPI to support the ARM platform was 1.5.2.
>> 
>> Brian
>> 
>> On 4/25/11 7:46 AM, "Ralph Castain" <r...@open-mpi.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> I think you've reversed the role of host and target then. "host" is the 
>>> machine type you are compiling on, and "target" is the machine you are 
>>> compiling for.
>>> 
>>> There used to be a wiki page on cross-compiling OMPI, but I couldn't 
>>> locate it this morning - I'm sure it's still there, but it is hard to 
>>> find. Try searching the OMPI web site for info.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Apr 25, 2011, at 5:09 AM, Fernando Dutra Fagundes Macedo wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I'm trying to cross-compile.
>>>> 
>>>> -----Mensagem original-----
>>>> De: users-boun...@open-mpi.org [mailto:users-boun...@open-mpi.org] Em 
>>>> nome de Ralph Castain  Enviada em: sábado, 23 de abril de 2011 17:21
>>>> Para: Open MPI Users
>>>> Assunto: Re: [OMPI users] RES: Error with ARM target
>>>> 
>>>> Don't give it a host argument - unless you are trying to 
>>>> cross-compile, it should figure it out for itself
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Apr 23, 2011, at 1:25 PM, Fernando Dutra Fagundes Macedo wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Correcting:
>>>>> 
>>>>> I tried 1.5.2 and 1.5.3.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> -----Mensagem original-----
>>>>> De: users-boun...@open-mpi.org em nome de Fernando Dutra Fagundes 
>>>>> Macedo
>>>>> Enviada: sáb 23/4/2011 16:16
>>>>> Para: us...@open-mpi.org
>>>>> Assunto: [OMPI users] Error with ARM target
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> 
>>>>> I am trying to use Open MPI on a Friendly ARM board, but I can't 
>>>>> compile it to ARM target. I'm trying to configure the package this way:
>>>>> 
>>>>> ./configure -host="arm"
>>>>> 
>>>>> What can I do to make it work?
>>>>> 
>>>>> More information:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Error: "configure: error: No atomic primitives available for 
>>>>> arm-unknown-none"
>>>>> Version: 1.4.2 and 1.4.3
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>>> Fernando Macedo
>>>>> 
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