Re: [Boost-users] [EXTERNAL] Re: [MPI] missing symbols using serialization's static library design

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [EXTERNAL] Re: [MPI] missing symbols using serialization's static library design
From: Barrett, Brian W (bwbarre_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-10-18 11:26:52

On 10/17/12 1:00 PM, "Robert Ramey" <ramey_at_[hidden]> wrote:

>Barrett, Brian W wrote:
>>
>> I know how to determine which MPI archivers need to be explicitly
>> instantiated, but as I said, that's a rather unsatisfying answer to
>> the problem.  It appears that the list of archivers I have to
>> explicitly instantiate has changed along the way from Boost 1.43.0
>> (the version that was current when we started the project) and Boost
>> 1.51.0.  At least one of the archivers is in the detail namespace, so
>> the authors clearly believe such details are internal to the
>> implementation.  This puts us in a rather large support bind.  I was
>> hoping that there would be a better way (like a macro to help with
>> the explicit instantiation or something similar.
>
>How about suggesting a patch to the MPI serialization inplementation
>which would sync this implementation up with the others.

Unfortunately, I'm barely competent in using Boost.MPI and
Boost.Serialization.  I'm definitely not in a position to be able to apply
a patch.

What I'm getting from your responses and the general silence elsewhere is
that the right answer is to deal with the incompatibilities between
versions of Boost and explicitly instantiate all the internal MPI
archivers and hope for the best.  It's a little painful, but I think we
can do that.

Thanks,

Brian

--
  Brian W. Barrett
  Scalable System Software Group
  Sandia National Laboratories