Re: [Boost-users] Boost.MPI 1.44.0 fails to build when BOOST_MPI_HOMOGENEOUS is set

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Boost.MPI 1.44.0 fails to build when BOOST_MPI_HOMOGENEOUS is set
From: Matthias Troyer (troyer_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-11-05 17:24:53

On 4 Nov 2010, at 22:45, Riccardo Murri wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to build Boost.MPI from the 1.44.0 sources; if I uncomment
> the `#define BOOST_MPI_HOMOGENEOUS` line in `boost/mpi/config.hpp`,
> then build fails with errors like this one (full compile log
> attached):
> 

> Boost 1.43.0 compiles just fine with BOOST_MPI_HOMOGENEOUS uncommented.
> 
> I'm using GCC 4.4.5 on Ubuntu 10.10; OpenMPI 1.4.1 installed from the
> official Ubuntu package.
> 
> Is this an issue with the sources?
> 
> Best regards,
> Riccardo

Hi Riccardo,

This is due to changes in the serialization library in 1.44. Workarounds have been added on the trunk and will appear in 1.45

Matthias