Re: [Boost-testing] Enabling Boost.MPI tests on AIX

Subject: Re: [Boost-testing] Enabling Boost.MPI tests on AIX
From: Vladimir Prus (vladimir_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-06-13 04:06:37

Christopher Cambly wrote:

>>
>> > 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.

Then, it probably does not react to neither of below options:

        -showme:compile
        -showme:link
        -showme
        -show

What option to mpCC is supposed to print additional compiler flags to use?

- Volodya