it is a bit different for those links since they are created only if they do not exist. I guess thede links should be recreated if they are older than Makefile
btw, does make check for the date of the symlink or the linked file ? On Wednesday, June 10, 2015, Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) <jsquy...@cisco.com> wrote: > On Jun 10, 2015, at 12:00 AM, Gilles Gouaillardet <gil...@rist.or.jp > <javascript:;>> wrote: > > > > that can happen indeed, in a complex but legitimate environment : > > > > mkdir ~/src > > cd ~/src > > tar xvfj openmpi-1.8.tar.bz2 > > mkdir ~/build/openmpi-v1.8 > > cd ~/build/openmpi-v1.8 > > ~/src/openmpi-1.8/configure > > make > > > > then a few days later > > > > cd ~/src > > tar xvfj openmpi-v1.8.5-46-g9f5f498.tar.bz2 > > # use the *same* build directory > > cd ~/build/openmpi-v1.8 > > # > (~/src/openmpi-v1.8.5-46-g95f5f498/opal/include/opal/opal_portable_platform.h > > # must be more recent than > ~/src/openmpi-1.8/ompi/include/mpi_portable_platform.h > > # just touch > ~/src/openmpi-v1.8.5-46-g95f5f498/opal/include/opal/opal_portable_platform.h > > # to force the issue > > ~/src/openmpi-v1.8.5-46-g9f5f498/configure > > make => BOUM > > Mmmm. Interesting. Ok, good to know! > > That means that the fix I committed should, indeed, fix this scenario (see > https://github.com/open-mpi/ompi/commit/fbaf6888f8905acc428d9a26eab9983f378d9326 > ). > > > i just found an other issue with this scenario : > > symlinks in the profile directories (ompi/mpi/c/profile, > ompi/mpi/fortran/mpif-h/profile, oshmem/shmem/c/profile) are not recreated > and points to the previous source tree. > > (that caused one crash at least, and likely silently compiles old > sources most of the time) > > Mmmm... yes, I guess you're right; that could lead to super-subtle bugs. > I guess I should add the "rm" to those sym link rules, too. > > Good catch! > > -- > Jeff Squyres > jsquy...@cisco.com <javascript:;> > For corporate legal information go to: > http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/ > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > us...@open-mpi.org <javascript:;> > Subscription: http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users > Link to this post: > http://www.open-mpi.org/community/lists/users/2015/06/27078.php >
