[Mpi-forum] make check is busted!

[William Gropp]

These should be managed by the chapter committees, and voted on a part of the chapter.  It would be counterproductive to vote on these individually.

Operationally, it is very difficult to mark up the text within the verbatim environment - frankly, the effort to do so is not worthwhile.  

My recommendation is to make the chapter committees responsible for these.  Note that in some cases, the "fixes" are to the annotations, and do not change the text, and hence need no vote.

Bill

On Jan 31, 2012, at 9:28 AM, Jeff Squyres wrote:

> Bill --
> 
> If we make minor changes in examples in the text, do we need to annotate them with "ticket 0" so that they can be ultimately voted on?
> 
> On Jan 31, 2012, at 10:16 AM, William Gropp wrote:
> 
>> Fab,
>> 
>> Yes, make check should build cleanly.  For example, the errors in coll.tex are Fortran 90 subroutines, listed as complete routines, that are missing the required "END" statement.  There are also "naked" examples that don't have the proper annotations; these should be added.  
>> 
>> For those that don't know about the "make check" option - this makes sure that our examples don't have simple errors in them - it requires a small amount of work to add the necessary annotations (documented and examples exist throughout the source) and our experience has been that this catches a lot of errors that would otherwise be missed.  In looking over the make check output, I see quite a few of those.  Chapter authors should check their chapters.
>> 
>> Bill
>> 
>> On Jan 30, 2012, at 4:07 PM, Fab Tillier wrote:
>> 
>>> Hey Folks,
>>> 
>>> Is it reasonable for me to expect that building the examples in the standard wouldn't generate a bunch of errors?  Do we build the examples before publishing drafts, etc?
>>> 
>>> Just running 'make check' on the approved/MPI-3.0 branch gives me a bunch of errors, in the following files:
>>> - chap-one-side/one-side-2.tex
>>> - chap-context/context.tex
>>> - chap-coll/coll.tex
>>> - chap-binding/binding-2.tex
>>> - chap-topol/topol.tex
>>> - chap-prof/prof.tex
>>> 
>>> Can the chapter owners figure out how to either fix or suppress these errors?  It makes it really hard to find errors I may have introduced - the signal to noise ratio is really lousy.  Alternatively, is there a 'correct' way of running 'make check' that won't generate these?  I ran autoconf in mpicompilechk, then configure.  Should I be specifying extra parameters or anything?
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> -Fab
>>> 
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William Gropp
Director, Parallel Computing Institute
Deputy Director for Research
Institute for Advanced Computing Applications and Technologies
Paul and Cynthia Saylor Professor of Computer Science
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign