[MITgcm-devel] optfiles cleaning

[Menemenlis, Dimitris (3248)]

Jean-Michel, I have not used linux_ia64_efc+mpi_altix in a very long time.
efc is the old name for ifort for Itanium architecture
I forget why the specific LIBS/INCLUDES/INCLUDEDIRS
were needed, but certainly the mpt version is quite out of date
and this build option file is made obsolete by linux_ia64_ifort+mpi_altix_nas
So I suggest that you move linux_ia64_efc+mpi_altix to unsupported.

Dimitris Menemenlis

On Sep 13, 2011, at 6:52 AM, Jean-Michel Campin wrote:

> Hi Dimitris,
> 
> I have a question regarding optfile: linux_ia64_efc+mpi_altix
> (I did not find any usefull information in the CVS-check-in messages,
> so I am asking the author).
> we have currently 3 linux_ia64_efc* optfiles:
> linux_ia64_efc
> linux_ia64_efc+mpi
> linux_ia64_efc+mpi_altix*
> But all the 3 have the same comment inside:
> #  tested on orion.jpl.nasa.gov (...)
> the +mpi_altix is only different from the +mpi by 1 more dir
> in the LIBS/INCLUDES/INCLUDEDIRS 
> Do you remember why ? (NetCDF ?, MPI ?) ?
> 
> Was going to merge at least linux_ia64_efc+mpi into linux_ia64_efc
> but might as well incoporate also linux_ia64_efc+mpi_altix into it.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jean-Michel
> 
> On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 05:36:56PM -0400, Jean-Michel Campin wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I would like to clean-up a little bit the list of optfiles (right now, 
>> more than 140).
>> 
>> I have started to merged few optfiles, with the idea of
>> having only one optfile for non-MPI and MPI built
>> (merging the +mpi optfile into the previously non-MPI one),
>> and also doing the same for the OpenMP one (+mth).
>> 
>> This will reduce the number of optfiles, be easier to maintain,
>> and since almost all the specific options are related
>> to compiler version rather than MPI/non-MPI choice, it should not
>> be a problem. Just need to use genmake2 with "-mpi" and/or "-omp"
>> option(s). 
>> An other advantage is that, when the optfile is not specified, 
>> genmake2 might be able to find the right optfile for an MPI built 
>> (at least it was working for me with linux_amd64_gfortran).
>> 
>> Will do a tag when this merging is done, and then move the old (merged)
>> optfiles to build_options/unsupported/
>> 
>> Also, I think some optfiles which are platform specific could also
>> be moved to "unsupported" when the machine is no longer used.
>> Will try to make a list and ask if it's OK to remove them.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Jean-Michel
>> 
>> 
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