On Mar 2, 2012, at 10:50 AM, Jeffrey Squyres wrote: > On Mar 2, 2012, at 9:48 AM, Yiguang Yan wrote: > >> (All with the same test script test.bash I post in my previous emails, so >> run with app file fed to mpirun command.) >> >> (1) If I put the --prefix in the app file, on each line of it, it works fine >> as Jeff said. >> >> (2) Since in the manual, it is said that the full path of mpirun is the same >> as setting "--prefix". However, with app file, >> this is not the case. Without "--prefix" on each line of the app file, the >> full path of mpirun does not work. > > Ralph and I just had a phone conversation about this. We consider it a bug > -- you shouldn't need to put --prefix in the app file. Meaning: --prefix is > currently being ignored if you use an app file (and therefore you have to put > --prefix in the app file). We're going to fix that.
Updated in the developer's trunk. I don't think we'll bring this to the 1.5 branch, though I leave that up to Jeff.