Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi
From: nevin@alex.osc.edu (Nick Nevin)
Subject: Re: Compiling LAM on LINUX
Organization: Ohio Supercomputer Center
Date: 27 Mar 1996 13:56:15 -0500
Message-ID: <vn2pw9y1i28.fsf@alex.osc.edu>


> 
> Have anyone succeeded in compiling LAM MPI implementation to the LINUX 
> operating system ?  Please mention version of LINUX, GCC and the Make 
> program. I tried several versions but still can't get it to work.
> 

It might help if you mentioned what version of LAM you are trying to compile
and what errors you are getting.

I have successfully compiled LAM 6.0 using gcc-2.7.2 and GNU make 3.74,
with kernel versions: 1.2.9, 1.3.20, 1.3.68, 1.3.77

I have also compiled with gcc-2.6.3 for kernel versions 1.2.9 and
1.3.20.

Note that in order for LAM 6.0 to work correctly with the
1.2.x kernels you need to apply lam60-patch02.

Also LAM 6.0 does not work on some of the 1.3.x kernels because of a bug
in the Linux kernel socket code. I do not know exactly when the bug was
introduced. I know 1.3.20 works, 1.3.68 does not, and 1.3.77 works (the
kernel bug is fixed.)

---nick.

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Nick Nevin				nevin@osc.edu
Ohio Supercomputer Center		http://www.osc.edu/lam.html

