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Subject: Re: [Boost-testing] Enabling Boost.MPI tests on AIX
From: Christopher Cambly (ccambly_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-06-12 17:03:14


>
> > We are interesting experimenting with Boost.MPI testing as part of our
> > nightly testing. We have had several attempts at enabling Boost.MPI
that
> > always fail with the message:
> >
> > ===============MPI Auto-configuration===============
> > MPI auto-detection failed: unknown wrapper compiler /usr/bin/mpCC
> > Please report this error to the Boost mailing list:
http://www.boost.org
> > You will need to manually configure MPI support.
> > MPI launcher: /usr/bin/mpiexec -np
> > ====================================================
> >
> > bjam --debug-configuration gives the same message. Our user-config.jam
has
> > the following line:
> > using mpi : /usr/bin/mpCC : : /usr/bin/mpiexec ;
> >
> > Is this supposed to work? Is there something else that we are missing?
>
> The above -- I am not sure. Did you mean /usr/bin/mpiCC (with extra 'i').
> At least that's the name I have on my system.
>

No mpCC (no i) is part of the IBM Parallel environment. The mpCC script
can invoke the xlC (vacpp) compiler which is why we are interested in
experimenting with it to see if how well it works with Boost.MPI.

Chris Cambly
XL C++ Compiler Development



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