Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: sond0074@horus.sara.nl (Willem Vermin)
Subject: pvm_addhost problems
Keywords: addhost
Organization: sara
Date: 25 Oct 1994 16:07:42 GMT
Message-ID: <38jage$nna@mira.sara.nl>

We found the following:

in version 3.2.6 the local value of PVM_ROOT is used to determine
 the path to the *** remote *** pvm directory (usually $HOME/pvm3)
If no PVM_ROOT is defined, then $HOME/pvm3 is used, so undefining
PVM_ROOT after installing ensures a working pvm3.2.6 system.

In version 3.3.4 the value of PVM_ROOT is used in the same way, however,
there is *** no *** default, so you are in trouble if you are using
pvm 3.3.4 on systems with different paths to the pvm directory.

We think that this is a bug: PVM_ROOT should point to the local 
pvm directory, as is stated in the manual in $ 3.3.


Willem Vermin
Jos Koot

