We chose not to backport the "unknown option" code as it proved too big a change for a stable release series.
On Sep 23, 2012, at 2:37 AM, Siegmar Gross <siegmar.gr...@informatik.hs-fulda.de> wrote: > Hi, > > yesterday I installed openmpi-1.6.2rc5r27346 and it seems to work. > Unfortunately I get a misleading error message when I call "mpiexec" > with an unknown option. > > tyr fd1026 112 mpiexec -np 2 -host sunpc0 -report-bindings -bycore \ > -bind-to-core date > Sun Sep 23 11:28:45 CEST 2012 > [sunpc0:12881] MCW rank 0 bound to socket 0[core 0]: [B .][. .] > [sunpc0:12881] MCW rank 1 bound to socket 0[core 1]: [. B][. .] > Sun Sep 23 11:28:45 CEST 2012 > > tyr fd1026 113 mpiexec -np 2 -host sunpc0 -report-bindings -map-by core \ > -bind-to-core date > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > mpiexec was unable to launch the specified application as it could not find > an executable: > > Executable: -map-by > Node: sunpc0 > > while attempting to start process rank 0. > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 2 total processes failed to start > > > Is it possible to display an error message like "unknown option"? > > > Kind regards > > Siegmar > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > us...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users