I'm going to move this over to the devel list... On Jul 11, 2011, at 4:17 AM, Ning Li wrote:
> Hi Jeff, > > I am willing to help test OpenMPI with the NAG compiler from time to time but > not sure how. If you could give me specific instructions I am very happy to > help. > > As for this technical issue, I did some research online. It appears that a > later version of Libtool (probably 2.2.10+) added support to NAG Fortran > compiler. There are discussions at > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-libtool/2010-09/msg00002.html > > The relevant section of code (which I found from Libtool 2.4) looks like: > > nagfor*) > # NAG Fortran compiler > _LT_TAGVAR(lt_prog_compiler_wl, $1)='-Wl,-Wl,,' > _LT_TAGVAR(lt_prog_compiler_pic, $1)='-PIC' > _LT_TAGVAR(lt_prog_compiler_static, $1)='-Bstatic' > ;; > > The basic idea here is that nagfor calls gcc (not ld directly) for linking so > there are two stages of parameter passing, so the rather strange looking > '-Wl,-Wl,,' flag. > > I can see that in OpenMPI 1.5.3 source, the $OPENMPI_DIR/config/libtool.m4 > file does not contain the above code. I have not nuch experience using > Libtool so I don't know how to fix this. Simply adding the new code does not > seem to work. > > Best regards, > > Ning > > > Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 20:32:21 -0400 > From: Jeff Squyres<jsquy...@cisco.com> > Subject: Re: [OMPI users] OpenMPI with NAG compiler and gcc 4.6 > >> Sorry for the delay in replying.:-\ >> >> I'm afraid we don't test with the NAG compiler.:-( >> >> Would this be something that the NAG would be willing to do for the Open MPI >> community? Companies like Absoft do -- we have a light test suite that can >> be fully automated (i.e., run via cron). Ping me offline if you would be >> able to do this. >> >> I suspect that the version of Libtool we're using doesn't fully understand >> the NAG compiler. We get many of the compile-time options by extracting >> them from Libtool. >> >> We use Libtool 2.2.6b for OMPI v1.5. Do you know if that version of Libtool >> supports the NAG compiler well, or if a more recent version supports it >> better? Libtool made some fairly major changes late in the 2.2.x series >> that we don't really want to have to adapt to in the v1.5 series if we don't >> have to (i.e., we planned to adapt to them for the v1.7 series). But >> perhaps we could patch our Libtool for NAG...? > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > The Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd is a company registered in England > and Wales with company number 1249803. The registered office is: > Wilkinson House, Jordan Hill Road, Oxford OX2 8DR, United Kingdom. > > This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star. The service is > powered by MessageLabs. > ________________________________________________________________________ > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > us...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users -- Jeff Squyres jsquy...@cisco.com For corporate legal information go to: http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/
