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authorAlbert Cheng <acheng@hdfgroup.org>2011-01-25 14:20:47 (GMT)
committerAlbert Cheng <acheng@hdfgroup.org>2011-01-25 14:20:47 (GMT)
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[svn-r19985] Added "gmake clean" known problem in AIX.
Removed AIX memory problem which is fixed by change IBX-AIX config file.
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@@ -120,15 +120,11 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.5
-------------
- The default number of MPI processes for testing purposes has been
changed from 3 to 6. (AKC - 2010/11/11)
- - Use this patch in the AIX config file when --enable-parallel is requested:
- RUNSERIAL=${RUNSERIAL="env LDR_CNTRL=MAXDATA=0x20000000@DSA MP_PROCS=1
- MP_TASKS_PER_NODE=1 poe"}
- (AKC - 2010/10/7)
- Some tests in tools/h5repack may fail in AIX systems when -q32 mode is
- used. The error is caused by not requesting enough memory. Use this
- patch in the AIX config file:
- RUNSERIAL=${RUNSERIAL="env LDR_CNTRL=MAXDATA=0x20000000@DSA"}
- (AKC - 2010/8/25)
+ used. The error is caused by not requesting enough memory in default.
+ Added "env LDR_CNTRL=MAXDATA=0x20000000@DSA" into the $RUNSERIAL and
+ $RUNPARALLE in the AIX config file so that executables are tested with
+ more memory. (AKC - 2010/11/11)
- Removed recognition of the parallel compilers of LAM(hcc) and
ChMPIon(cmpicc) since we have no access to these two MPI implementations
and cannot verify their correctness. (AKC - 2010/07/14 - Bug 1921)
@@ -432,6 +428,12 @@ SuSe Linux 2.4.21 ia64 Intel C y y y n
Known Problems
==============
+* If parallel gmake (e.g., gmake -j 4) is used, the "gmake clean" command
+ sometimes fails in the perform directory due to the attempt to remove the
+ executable of h5perf or h5perf_serial by two "parallel" commands. This error
+ has no consequence on the functionality of the HDF5 library or install. It
+ is fixed in the next release. AKC - 2011/01/25
+
* While working on the 1.8.6 release of HDF5, a bug was discovered that can
occur when reading from a dataset in parallel shortly after it has been
written to collectively. The issue was exposed by a new test in the parallel
@@ -448,6 +450,7 @@ Known Problems
a compound type dataset are compared. This also occurs with variable-length
string arrays in a compound type dataset. See bug #1989. This will be fixed
in the next release. JKM - 2010/11/05
+
* The AIX --enable-shared setting does not quite work. It can produce a shared
library, but there cannot be more than one shared library that is
interlinked. This means that the high level APIs will not work which is not
@@ -475,13 +478,6 @@ Known Problems
C++ applications/tests. Do not use the enable-cxx configure option. Read all of
the INSTALL_MINGW.txt file for all restrictions. ADB - 2009/11/11
-* Some tests in tools/h5repack may fail in AIX systems when -q32 mode is used.
- The error is due to insufficient memory requested. Request a large amount
- of runtime memory by setting the following environment variable for more
- memory.
- LDR_CNTRL=MAXDATA=0x20000000@DSA
- AKC - 2009/10/31
-
* The PathScale MPI implementation, accessing a Panasas file system, would
cause H5Fcreate() with H5F_ACC_EXCL to fail even when the file does not
exist. This is due to the MPI_File_open() call failing if the amode has