From 1d67a83838e480b5c6cfee9a35835527321eb853 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeff Squyres Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 18:59:26 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] * Update the bullet about NetBSD6 + f95/g95. * Remove an old/outdated bullet about PGI and OS X (that bug has since been fixed). cmr=v1.7.4:reviewer=rhc:subject=Update README bullets This commit was SVN r30290. --- README | 14 ++++++++------ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/README b/README index 08ce22e031..0794c8706c 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -159,9 +159,14 @@ Compiler Notes might want to double check that you have the latest bug fixes and patches for your compiler. -- Building Open MPI on a NetBSD-6 AMD64 system will run into obscure - compile-time failures if f95/g95 is found in the path. You can work - around such problems by removing g95 from your path. +- On NetBSD-6 (at least AMD64 and i386), and possibly on OpenBSD, + libtool misidentifies properties of f95/g95, leading to obscure + compile-time failures if used to build Open MPI. You can work + around this issue by ensuring that libtool will not use f95/g95 + (e.g., by specifying FC=, or otherwise ensuring + a different Fortran compiler will be found earlier in the path than + f95/g95), or by disabling the Fortran MPI bindings with + --disable-mpi-fortran. - Absoft 11.5.2 plus a service pack from September 2012 (which Absoft says is available upon request), or a version later than 11.5.2 @@ -260,9 +265,6 @@ Compiler Notes still using GCC 3.x). Contact Pathscale support if you continue to have problems with Open MPI's C++ bindings. -- There is currently a known issue with the PGI compilers on OS X - Lion. See https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/3011. - - Using the Absoft compiler to build the MPI Fortran bindings on Suse 9.3 is known to fail due to a Libtool compatibility issue.