[Pkg-openmpi-maintainers] Bug#376833: Bug#376833: Next steps

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 19 March 2008 at 20:47, Jeff Squyres wrote:
| Guess what?  Brian sent a long list of thoughts and a patch for "75%  
| of the work" to support libatomic-ops in Open MPI (as a backup for  
| platforms that we don't support with our native assembly).  The  
| remaining 25% requires access to the platforms that we don't support  
| -- so perhaps that's appropriate for you guys to tackle...?

Ok, I guess the ball in our court for that.  We need to round up the porters
on these architectures.  Now, that doesn't always work as some of those good
folks are spread thinly (eg I think there at the most two looking after our
20,000 packages for the s390...)

Adam: Any thoughts?  Posts to -devel or the arch lists?
 
| I put up the information Brian sent on our wiki:
| 
|      https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/wiki/libatomic-ops
| 
| I branched from our SVN trunk and applied his patch -- the SVN URL you  
| can check out is (it contains his patch):
| 
|      https://svn.open-mpi.org/svn/ompi/tmp-public/libatomic-ops
| 
| Be sure to see our "how to compile OMPI from SVN" page:
| 
|      http://www.open-mpi.org/svn/building.php
| 
| How does this sound?

Very helpful, and I hope someone will run with this.  I do not know these
arches either and cannot drive this, but I will try my best to move it along.

Thanks for the follow-up -- it is greatly appreciated.

Dirk

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