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author | Albert Cheng <acheng@hdfgroup.org> | 2011-01-25 14:20:47 (GMT) |
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committer | Albert Cheng <acheng@hdfgroup.org> | 2011-01-25 14:20:47 (GMT) |
commit | 9ed32a3300a7a6ac423ce26367488c429de81099 (patch) | |
tree | e90610fd5a6da4b6152a959529ae9a30d533d066 /release_docs/RELEASE.txt | |
parent | 90762c634da1f9a112df68570d207f9e5cfc0341 (diff) | |
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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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diff --git a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt index 15e5944..c4bcf33 100644 --- a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt +++ b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt @@ -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 |