It looks like FreeBSD has all the features required to support patching
the loader but has some minor differences in types. We will disable this
component on FreeBSD for now I may investigate re-enabling it later.

-Nathan

On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 02:00:56PM +0000, Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) wrote:
> Thanks; I added this to https://github.com/open-mpi/ompi-release/pull/1079.
> 
> I didn't know your Github ID, so I didn't @mention you in the comment.
> 
> 
> > On Apr 17, 2016, at 1:07 AM, dpchoudh . <dpcho...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Hello all
> > 
> > I understand that FreeBSD is not a supported platform, so this may be an 
> > irrelevant piece of information, but let me pass it on anyway in the hope 
> > that it might be useful to somebody.
> > 
> > OpenMPI 1.10.2 (release) successfully compiles on FreeBSD 10.2 (except for 
> > a minor issue of setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH for Fortran compilation).
> > 
> > However, the trunk does not build, and the error is as follows:
> > 
> > Making all in mca/patcher/linux
> >   CC       patcher_linux_module.lo
> > patcher_linux_module.c:44:5: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list 
> > before 'ElfW'
> >      ElfW(Xword)        size;
> >      ^
> > patcher_linux_module.c:48:5: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list 
> > before 'ElfW'
> >      ElfW(Rela)         *tab;
> > 
> > <And many more similar, snipped for brevity>
> > 
> > It looks like the file and directory where this issue occurs is a new 
> > addition in the master branch (for release 2.x, I presume); it does not 
> > exist in 1.10.2
> > 
> > I know nothing about the intent of the new code, and it looks like it is 
> > meant for Linux (only?) anyway, but somehow the autotools is pulling it in 
> > for FreeBSD as well.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > Durga
> > 
> > 
> > 1% of the executables have 99% of CPU privilege!
> > Userspace code! Unite!! Occupy the kernel!!!
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