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Overview
========
This file is here for those who are building/exploring OMPI in its
source code form, most likely through a developer's tree (i.e., a
Subversion or Mercurial checkout).
Debugging vs. Optimized Builds
==============================
If you are building Open MPI from a Subversion checkout, the default
build includes a lot of debugging features. This happens
automatically when when configure detects the hidden ".svn" Subversion
meta directory (that is present in all Subversion checkouts) in your
source tree, and therefore activates a number of developer-only
debugging features in the Open MPI code base.
The same debugging features are activated if you build in a Git or
Mercurial clone (with the hidden ".git" or ".hg" meta directory).
By definition, debugging builds will perform [much] slower than
optimized builds of Open MPI. You should *NOT* conduct timing tests
or try to run production performance numbers with debugging builds.
If you wish to build an optimized version of Open MPI from a
developer's checkout, you have three main options:
1. Use the "--with-platform=optimized" switch to configure. This is
the preferred (and probably easiest) method. For example:
shell$ svn co http://svn.open-mpi.org/svn/ompi/trunk ompi
shell$ cd ompi
shell$ ./autogen.pl
shell$ mkdir build
shell$ cd build
shell$ ./configure --with-platform=optimized ...
[...lots of output...]
shell$ make all install
2. Use a VPATH build. Simply build Open MPI from a different
directory than the source tree -- one where the .svn / .git / .hg
subdirectory is not present. For example:
shell$ svn co http://svn.open-mpi.org/svn/ompi/trunk ompi
shell$ cd ompi
shell$ ./autogen.pl
shell$ mkdir build
shell$ cd build
shell$ ../configure ...
[...lots of output...]
shell$ make all install
3. Manually specify configure options to disable all the debugging
options (note that this is exactly what "--with-platform=optimized"
does behind the scenes). You'll need to carefully examine the
output of "./configure --help" to see which options to disable.
They are all listed, but some are less obvious than others (they
are not listed here because it is a changing set of flags; by
Murphy's Law, listing them here will pretty much guarantee that
this file will get out of date):
shell$ ./configure --disable-debug ...
[...lots of output...]
shell$ make all install
Use of GNU Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool (and m4)
===================================================
This procedure is *ONLY* necessary if you are building from a
developer's tree. If you have an Open MPI distribution tarball, this
procedure is unnecessary -- you can (and should) skip reading this
section.
If you are building Open MPI from a developer's tree, you must first
install fairly recent versions of the GNU tools Autoconf, Automake,
and Libtool (and possibly GNU m4, because recent versions of Autoconf
have specific GNU m4 version requirements). The specific versions
required depend on if you are using the trunk or a release branch (and
which release branch you are using). The specific versions can be
found at:
http://www.open-mpi.org/svn/building.php
You can check what versions of the autotools you have installed with
the following:
shell$ m4 --version
shell$ autoconf --version
shell$ automake --version
shell$ libtoolize --version
Required version levels for all the OMPI releases can be found here:
http://www.open-mpi.org/svn/building.php
To strengthen the above point: the core Open MPI developers typically
use very, very recent versions of the GNU tools. There are known bugs
in older versions of the GNU tools that Open MPI no longer compensates
for (it seemed senseless to indefinitely support patches for ancient
versions of Autoconf, for example). You *WILL* have problems if you
do not use recent versions of the GNU tools.
If you need newer versions, you are *strongly* encouraged to heed the
following advice:
NOTE: On MacOS/X, the default "libtool" program is different than the
GNU libtool. You must download and install the GNU version
(e.g., via MacPorts, Homebrew, or some other mechanism).
1. Unless your OS distribution has easy-to-use binary installations,
the sources can be can be downloaded from:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/
and if you need it:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/m4/
NOTE: It is certainly easiest to download/build/install all four of
these tools together. But note that Open MPI has no specific m4
requirements; it is only listed here because Autoconf requires
minimum versions of GNU m4. Hence, you may or may not *need* to
actually install a new version of GNU m4. That being said, if you
are confused or don't know, just install the latest GNU m4 with the
rest of the GNU Autotools and everything will work out fine.
2. Build and install the tools in the following order:
2a. m4
2b. Autoconf
2c. Automake
2d. Libtool
3. You MUST install the last three tools (Autoconf, Automake, Libtool)
into the same prefix directory. These three tools are somewhat
inter-related, and if they're going to be used together, they MUST
share a common installation prefix.
You can install m4 anywhere as long as it can be found in the path;
it may be convenient to install it in the same prefix as the other
three. Or you can use any recent-enough m4 that is in your path.
3a. It is *strongly* encouraged that you do not install your new
versions over the OS-installed versions. This could cause
other things on your system to break. Instead, install into
$HOME/local, or /usr/local, or wherever else you tend to
install "local" kinds of software.
3b. In doing so, be sure to prefix your $path with the directory
where they are installed. For example, if you install into
$HOME/local, you may want to edit your shell startup file
(.bashrc, .cshrc, .tcshrc, etc.) to have something like:
# For bash/sh:
export PATH=$HOME/local/bin:$PATH
# For csh/tcsh:
set path = ($HOME/local/bin $path)
3c. Ensure to set your $path *BEFORE* you configure/build/install
the four packages.
4. All four packages require two simple commands to build and
install (where PREFIX is the prefix discussed in 3, above).
shell$ cd <m4 directory>
shell$ ./configure --prefix=PREFIX
shell$ make; make install
--> If you are using the csh or tcsh shells, be sure to run the
"rehash" command after you install each package.
shell$ cd <autoconf directory>
shell$ ./configure --prefix=PREFIX
shell$ make; make install
--> If you are using the csh or tcsh shells, be sure to run the
"rehash" command after you install each package.
shell$ cd <automake directory>
shell$ ./configure --prefix=PREFIX
shell$ make; make install
--> If you are using the csh or tcsh shells, be sure to run the
"rehash" command after you install each package.
shell$ cd <libtool directory>
shell$ ./configure --prefix=PREFIX
shell$ make; make install
--> If you are using the csh or tcsh shells, be sure to run the
"rehash" command after you install each package.
m4, Autoconf and Automake build and install very quickly; Libtool will
take a minute or two.
5. You can now run OMPI's top-level "autogen.pl" script. This script
will invoke the GNU Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool commands in the
proper order and setup to run OMPI's top-level "configure" script.
Running autogen.pl may take a few minutes, depending on your
system. It's not very exciting to watch. :-)
If you have a multi-processor system, enabling the multi-threaded
behavior in Automake 1.11 (or newer) can result in autogen.pl
running faster. Do this by setting the AUTOMAKE_JOBS environment
variable to the number of processors (threads) that you want it to
use before invoking autogen.pl. For example (you can again put
this in your shell startup files):
# For bash/sh:
export AUTOMAKE_JOBS=4
# For csh/tcsh:
set AUTOMAKE_JOBS 4
5a. You generally need to run autogen.pl whenever the top-level
file "configure.ac" changes, or any files in the config/ or
<project>/config/ directories change (these directories are
where a lot of "include" files for OMPI's configure script
live).
5b. You do *NOT* need to re-run autogen.pl if you modify a
Makefile.am.
Use of Flex
===========
Flex is used during the compilation of a developer's checkout (it is
not used to build official distribution tarballs). Other flavors of
lex are *not* supported: given the choice of making parsing code
portable between all flavors of lex and doing more interesting work on
Open MPI, we greatly prefer the latter.
Note that no testing has been performed to see what the minimum
version of Flex is required by Open MPI. We suggest that you use
v2.5.35 at the earliest.
*** NOTE: Windows developer builds of Open MPI *require* Flex version
2.5.35. Specifically, we know that v2.5.35 works and 2.5.4a does not.
We have not tested to figure out exactly what the minimum required
flex version is on Windows; we suggest that you use 2.5.35 at the
earliest. It is for this reason that the
contrib/dist/make_dist_tarball script checks for a Windows-friendly
version of flex before continuing.
For now, Open MPI will allow developer builds with Flex 2.5.4. This
is primarily motivated by the fact that RedHat/Centos 5 ships with
Flex 2.5.4. It is likely that someday Open MPI developer builds will
require Flex version >=2.5.35.
Note that the flex-generated code generates some compiler warnings on
some platforms, but the warnings do not seem to be consistent or
uniform on all platforms, compilers, and flex versions. As such, we
have done little to try to remove those warnings.
If you do not have Flex installed, it can be downloaded from the
following URL:
http://flex.sourceforge.net/