Re: mpi 1.2.0 released

[Marco Atzeri]

On 19/01/2014 22:50, c. wrote:
> On 19 Jan 2014, at 21:48, Marco Atzeri <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Carlo,
> > attached small patch to allow compilation also on cygwin.
>
> Marco,
> thanks, but there's no need for this patch, the Makefile only
> provides some reasonable default values but it cannot take into account
> all possible options for any platform and any MPI flavour.
>
> If the flags set by default do not work for you, you can override them
> by:
>
> setenv OFMPIINC "-I/path/to/mpi/includes"
> setenv OFMPILIBS "-L/path/to/mpi/lib -lmpi -lwhatever"
> pkg install -forge mpi

noted. for binary packaging purpose I don't like setenv way,
patches are preferred ;-)

> > Additional, are you aware that mpic++ inteface is deprecated
> > http://www.mpi-forum.org/docs/mpi-2.2/mpi22-report/node328.htm
> > and it is already gone on openmpi-1.9.x (current devel)
>
> I am aware that C++ language bindings have been deprecated in MPI.
> One of the reasons they have been deprecated is that no one was actually
> using them.
>
> And indeed neither is the mpi OF package which has been programmed using
> the C bindings right from the start, so there is nothing to change there ;)

ok, I forgot to check. mpic++ fooled me.
I spent too much time on openmpi trunk devel recently

Regards
Marco