H5Part development and discussion

[Achim Gsell <achim AT cybercity.ch>]

On Wednesday 18 April 2007 17:48, Wes Bethel wrote:
> Kurt kindly put a tarball in a location accessible to me
> pending resolution of the "how does a normal Joe User gain
> access to the SVN repository at PSI" problem:
> http://vis.lbl.gov/Research/AcceleratorSAPP/Downloading.html
>
> When attempting to build it, I ran into some snags.
>
> 1. There is no longer a configure file included in the
> tarball. The README needs to be updated to reflect that you
> must first run autogen.sh, which will produce a configure
> file.

Ther *is* a configure script in the tarball - if you create the 
tarball in the right way. The tarball *must* be created as I 
described in a former email. 

> 2. Outright build failure of the homdynToH5p utility:
>
> mpiCC -DPARALLEL_IO -DH5_HAVE_PARALLEL -DMPICH_IGNORE_CXX_SEEK
> -I/usr/local/hdf5-mpich/include -I/home/tmp/H5Part-1.3.1/src 
> -g -c homdynToH5p.cc
> cc1plus: warning: -fhandle-exceptions has been renamed
> -fexceptions (and is now on by default)
> /usr/local/mpich/include/mpi2c++/mpi2c++_map.h:36: error:
> template with C linkage
> /usr/local/mpich/include/mpi2c++/functions.h:70: error:
> declaration of C function ‘void PMPI::Init()’ conflicts with
> /usr/local/mpich/include/mpi2c++/functions.h:67: error:
> previous declaration ‘void PMPI::Init(int&, char**&)’ here
> /usr/local/mpich/include/mpi2c++/functions.h:70: error:
> declaration of C function ‘void MPI::Init()’ conflicts with
> /usr/local/mpich/include/mpi2c++/functions.h:67: error:
> previous declaration ‘void MPI::Init(int&, char**&)’ here
> /usr/local/mpich/include/mpi2c++/functions_inln.h:105: error:
> ‘void PMPI::Init(int&, char**&)’ should have been declared
> inside ‘PMPI’
> /usr/local/mpich/include/mpi2c++/functions_inln.h: In function
> ‘void PMPI::Init(int&, char**&)’:
> /usr/local/mpich/include/mpi2c++/functions_inln.h:105: error:
> declaration of C function ‘void PMPI::Init(int&, char**&)’
> conflicts with
> /usr/local/mpich/include/mpi2c++/functions.h:70: error:
> previous declaration ‘void PMPI::Init()’ here
> /usr/local/mpich/include/mpi2c++/functions_inln.h: At global
> scope: /usr/local/mpich/include/mpi2c++/functions_inln.h:112:
> error: ‘void PMPI::Init()’ should have been declared inside
> ‘PMPI’ /usr/local/mpich/include/mpi2c++/functions_inln.h: In
> function ‘void PMPI::Init()’:
> /usr/local/mpich/include/mpi2c++/functions_inln.h:112: error:
> declaration of C function ‘void PMPI::Init()’ conflicts with
> /usr/local/mpich/include/mpi2c++/functions_inln.h:105: error:
> previous declaration ‘void PMPI::Init(int&, char**&)’ here
> make[2]: *** [homdynToH5p.o] Error 1.
>
> Using these configure options:
> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/h5part-mpich --enable-parallel
> --enable-tools --with-mpipath=/usr/local/mpich
> --with-hdf5path=/usr/local/hdf5-mpich CC=mpicc CXX=mpiCC

Same error on our Merlin cluster with mpich2.  I will remove this 
program from the Makefile and release a new development version 
tomorrow. We can add it later again. It's a tool written by one 
of our guys and they have to fix it...

Achim