[MITgcm-devel] linking order in genmake2

[Chris Hill]

Patrick,

 I remembered the thing I wanted to mention earlier, so before I forget
again:
 When you have a chance and if you haven't already done so can you let Ed
have any genmake options and any tweaks to the timer stuff for the SX
machine. 

Chris
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mitgcm-devel-bounces at mitgcm.org 
> [mailto:mitgcm-devel-bounces at mitgcm.org] On Behalf Of Patrick Heimbach
> Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 9:18 PM
> To: MITgcm-devel at mitgcm.org
> Subject: Re: [MITgcm-devel] linking order in genmake2
> 
> Yes.
> I guess I confused Ed, sorry.
> Not urgent anyways, merging seems to go very well so far.
> -p.
> 
> Chris Hill wrote:
> > Patrick,
> > 
> >  You mean linking as in soft links with "ln -s" not linking as in 
> > linking and loading with "ld" - is that right?
> > 
> > Chris
> > 
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: mitgcm-devel-bounces at mitgcm.org 
> >>[mailto:mitgcm-devel-bounces at mitgcm.org] On Behalf Of Ed Hill
> >>Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 8:36 PM
> >>To: MITgcm-devel
> >>Subject: Re: [MITgcm-devel] linking order in genmake2
> >>
> >>On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 18:56, Patrick Heimbach wrote:
> >>
> >>>Hi Ed,
> >>>
> >>>I have a question regarding the linking order in genmake2.
> >>>Is it always alpabetical?
> >>>For example, since mom_fluxform comes before mom_vecinv
> >>
> >>that seems to
> >>
> >>>work fine.
> >>>Now I have routines in pkg/ecco/ which should supersede 
> routines in 
> >>>pkg/cost/ I was hoping that by placing 'ecco' ahead of 'cost'
> >>>in packages.conf might do the trick, but apparently it doesn't.
> >>
> >>
> >>Hi Patrick,
> >>
> >>Off the top of my head, heres two possible approaches:
> >>
> >>  1) come up with a way to exclude the unwanted subroutines 
> >>     so the compiler/linker can't pick the unwanted ones, or
> >>
> >>  2) build using static libraries so that we force the linker 
> >>     to see certain routines first.
> >>
> >>Could you send me some more concrete examples?  I'll be happy to 
> >>re-work our makefile to do either of the above.
> >>
> >>Ed
> >>
> >>--
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