[mvapich-discuss] fail to link with mvapich2-1.2p1/mvapich2-1.4rc2

[Manhui Wang]

I made a mistake in producing the previous uploaded patches, here
attached is the updated one, which seems to work fine with Molpro.

Manhui Wang wrote:
> Dear MVAPICH2 developers,
>        Following last mail, I tried to see whether it is possible to
> make some change in Molpro. But it seems to be impossible since Molpro
> directly calls these functions, which are from yacc or bison libraries.
> This means these name conflicts with those in yacc or bison libraries. I
> have made two small patches(see files attached) for mvapich2, with these
> patches Molpro works fine with Mvapich2. I would be very appreciated if
> you can  include these changes (probably you will consider more changes
> to avoid conflicting with other programs, but this works for molpro at
> least) in the mvapich2 development version at your earliest convenience.
> So I can test the updated mvapich2 before the final release.
> 
> Thank you very much.
> Manhui
> 
> Jonathan Perkins wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 04:14:08PM +0100, Manhui Wang wrote:
>>> Dear MVAPICH2 developers,
>>>       I tried to build Molpro (see http://www.molpro.net/) with MVAPICH2
>>> 1.2p1 (as well as mvapich2-1.4rc2) library, but failed. The reason is
>>> that both Molpro and Mvapich use some general function names.  The
>>> source code of mvapich library (tokens.c parser.c) contains
>>> some yacc-like parsing code. These three
>>> functions(yylex yyparse  yyerror) happen to have the same names as those
>>> in parse files of Molpro. I renamed these three function to those with a
>>> prefix mvapich_* in MVAPICH source code, and recompiled the mvapich2
>>> library. Now it works fine.  Could you please slightly change these
>>> names to avoid potential conflict with other application program in next
>>> release version? Surely, Molpro could also choose other specific
>>> function names to avoid such problems.
>> Thank you for the suggestion.  We'll take a look at this and have it
>> resolved before our final release.
>>
>>> The following is the error message:
>>>
>>> /home/sacmw4/soft/mvapich2-1.2p1-install/lib/libmpich.a(parser.o): In
>>> function `yylex':
>>> parser.c:(.text+0xbfc): multiple definition of `yylex'
>>> ../lib/libmolpro.a(licence.o):parse.c:(.text+0x9ccf): first defined here
>>> ld: Warning: size of symbol `yylex' changed from 3091 in
>>> ../lib/libmolpro.a(licence.o) to 3336 in
>>> /home/sacmw4/soft/mvapich2-1.2p1-install/lib/libmpich.a(parser.o)
>>> /home/sacmw4/soft/mvapich2-1.2p1-install/lib/libmpich.a(tokens.o): In
>>> function `yyparse':
>>> tokens.c:(.text+0x0): multiple definition of `yyparse'
>>> ../lib/libmolpro.a(licence.o):parse.c:(.text+0xdb): first defined here
>>> ld: Warning: size of symbol `yyparse' changed from 22803 in
>>> ../lib/libmolpro.a(licence.o) to 3110 in
>>> /home/sacmw4/soft/mvapich2-1.2p1-install/lib/libmpich.a(tokens.o)
>>> /home/sacmw4/soft/mvapich2-1.2p1-install/lib/libmpich.a(tokens.o): In
>>> function `yyerror':
>>> tokens.c:(.text+0x1e5c): multiple definition of `yyerror'
>>> ../lib/libmolpro.a(licence.o):parse.c:(.text+0x5edd): first defined here
>>> ld: Warning: size of symbol `yyerror' changed from 934 in
>>> ../lib/libmolpro.a(licence.o) to 26 in
>>> /home/sacmw4/soft/mvapich2-1.2p1-install/lib/libmpich.a(tokens.o)
>>> failure
>>> /home/sacmw4/soft/mvapich2-1.2p1-install/lib/libmpich.a(parser.o): In
>>> function `yylex':
>>> parser.c:(.text+0xbfc): multiple definition of `yylex'
>>> ../lib/libmolpro.a(licence.o):parse.c:(.text+0x9ccf): first defined here
>>> ld: Warning: size of symbol `yylex' changed from 3091 in
>>> ../lib/libmolpro.a(licence.o) to 3336 in
>>> /home/sacmw4/soft/mvapich2-1.2p1-install/lib/libmpich.a(parser.o)
>>> /home/sacmw4/soft/mvapich2-1.2p1-install/lib/libmpich.a(tokens.o): In
>>> function `yyparse':
>>> tokens.c:(.text+0x0): multiple definition of `yyparse'
>>> ../lib/libmolpro.a(licence.o):parse.c:(.text+0xdb): first defined here
>>> ld: Warning: size of symbol `yyparse' changed from 22803 in
>>> ../lib/libmolpro.a(licence.o) to 3110 in
>>> /home/sacmw4/soft/mvapich2-1.2p1-install/lib/libmpich.a(tokens.o)
>>> /home/sacmw4/soft/mvapich2-1.2p1-install/lib/libmpich.a(tokens.o): In
>>> function `yyerror':
>>> tokens.c:(.text+0x1e5c): multiple definition of `yyerror'
>>> ../lib/libmolpro.a(licence.o):parse.c:(.text+0x5edd): first defined here
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Manhui
>>>
>>> Yutaka Kubota wrote:
>>>> Dear MVAPICH2 discussion Mailing list,
>>>>
>>>> This is Yutaka Kubota from Cray Japan.
>>>>
>>>> I would like to know when will release MVAPICH2 1.4 official version. If
>>>> this plan was not decided, we will try to use RC2 or RC3 version. We
>>>> just would like to know this plan is exist or not.
>>>>
>>>> Best regards
>>>>
>>>> Yutaka Kubota
>>>>
>>>>
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