[MITgcm-devel] optfiles cleaning

[Jean-Michel Campin]

Hi Dimitris,
Thanks. I will as you suggest.
Cheers,
Jean-Michel

On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 03:12:49PM -0700, Menemenlis, Dimitris (3248) wrote:
> 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 were needed, but certainly the mpt version is quite out of date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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