[Pw_forum] Configuration script bound to fail on IBM SP?

[Gerardo Ballabio]

On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 13:51 -0500, Serge Nakhmanson wrote:
> As I understand this, the configuration tool compiles a small sample
> piece of Fortran code with an MPI AIX Fortran compiler (mpxlf90_r)
> and then tries to run it to see if it works. However, most of the
> SP machines (the aforementioned two belong to the DoD) I've dealt with
> do not allow to run parallel codes interactively or at least not just
> as "./a.out"; you'll have to do something like
> "poe ./a.out -procs X -hostfile host.dat" if interactive runs are
> allowed, and this is what this error message is all about. In such
> a case the configuration script is kinda bound to fail.

That is a known problem and has been worked around in the current
development version. You can obtain it from our CVS repository,
instructions are in the README.cvs file.

Gerardo