[BIOSAL] Minimal build of thorium actor applications
Boisvert, Sebastien
boisvert at anl.gov
Tue Nov 4 20:06:24 CST 2014
> From: George K. Thiruvathukal [gkt at cs.luc.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2014 4:52 PM
> To: Boisvert, Sebastien
> Cc: biosal at lists.cels.anl.gov
> Subject: Re: [BIOSAL] Minimal build of thorium actor applications
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> There's one other thing I wanted to put on our radar.
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> While working with Eclipse CDT (and other IDEs), it is becoming apparent that having the build objects appear in the same folders as the source is a bit less than desirable. Most C/C++ projects tend to overcome this by having a separate build folder. We should
> try try to build to an external directory, e.g. build/<target>, where <target> is a configuration, and "build" is a peer directory of "src". (We presently don't have an src subdirectory, but this is ok.) This would allow us to keep the .o/.obj files out of
> the project view when inside of an IDE. As I'm sure you know, it also makes for an easier "clean" rule (rm -rf build/<target>).
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> Again, none of what I'm writing is a bug per se. It's just that I'd like to find a way to make it better for different ways of using the source code (or development workflows, as I like to call them).
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> It seems like the current Makefile structure lends itself to doing this change, since you are building up a list of files and then compiling all of them (presumably from the top level). But I might be missing something.
Yes. The top level makefile controls everything.
autoconf or cmake would make it possible to do what you are saying.
I don't know if make can achieve that.
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> Anyway, I'll discuss this with you tomorrow, among other topics we have on our regular agenda. I can make an issue in our GitHub tracker for this, but I thought it would be good to discuss this first. We do have other priorities, so this is not urgent but one
> of those things that would put us on par with toolkits like MPICH, Globus, etc.
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> George K. Thiruvathukal, PhD
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> Professor of Computer Science, Loyola University Chicago
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> Director, Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities
> Guest Faculty, Argonne National Laboratory, Math and Computer Science Division
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> On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Boisvert, Sebastien
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> Great !
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> > From: George K. Thiruvathukal [gkt at cs.luc.edu]
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2014 4:38 PM
> > To: Boisvert, Sebastien
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> biosal at lists.cels.anl.gov
> > Subject: Re: [BIOSAL] Minimal build of thorium actor applications
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> > Seb,
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> > Just letting you know, everything is working! This is going to be really helpful for me (and, I hope, others).
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> > Best,
> > George
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> > George K. Thiruvathukal, PhD
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> > Professor of Computer Science, Loyola University Chicago
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> > Director, Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities
> > Guest Faculty, Argonne National Laboratory, Math and Computer Science Division
> > Editor in Chief, Computing in
> > Science and Engineering (IEEE CS/AIP)
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> > On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 3:10 PM, Boisvert, Sebastien
> > <boisvert at anl.gov> wrote:
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> > Yes
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> > Option list:
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> https://github.com/sebhtml/biosal/blob/master/Documentation/Compilation_Options.md
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> > You probably want to use something like this:
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> > make -j CONFIG_MPI=n CC=cc
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> > > From: George K. Thiruvathukal [gkt at cs.luc.edu]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2014 2:45 PM
> > > To: Boisvert, Sebastien
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> > > Subject: Re: [BIOSAL] Minimal build of thorium actor applications
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> > > Hi Seb,
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> > > This is fantastic news! If I pull from upstream (sebhtml/master), will I pick this up?
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> > > George
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> > > George K. Thiruvathukal, PhD
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> > > Professor of Computer Science, Loyola University Chicago
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> > > Director, Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities
> > > Guest Faculty, Argonne National Laboratory, Math and Computer Science Division
> > > Editor in Chief, Computing in
> > > Science and Engineering (IEEE CS/AIP)
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> > > On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 9:37 AM, Boisvert, Sebastien
> > > <boisvert at anl.gov> wrote:
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> > > Following George's request, I added some options to do minimal builds:
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> > > "-lrt" is no longer needed, there is a fallback path with gettimeofday.
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> > > For MPI, I had to add "mock_transport" which only sets the rank to 0 and the size to 1.
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> > > The new minimal build only needs libm, libc, and libpthread.
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> > > linux-vdso and ld-linux-x86-64 are specific to the Linux operating system
> > > and/or to the architecture. vdso (vsyscall) is used to invoke some system
> > > calls directly from userspace for better performance. ld-linux is used
> > > to load shared libraries.
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> > > $ make -j CONFIG_CLOCK_GETTIME=n CONFIG_MPI=n CONFIG_ZLIB=n CC=cc
> > > $ ldd performance/latency_probe/latency_probe
> > > linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007fffc7bff000)
> > > libm.so.6 => /lib64/libm.so.6 (0x0000003f19a00000)
> > > libpthread.so.0 => /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x0000003f1a200000)
> > > libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x0000003f19600000)
> > > /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x0000003f19200000)
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> > > That should be easier like this to build on POWER7 or on k1om (or in Eclipse).
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> > > George:
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> > > You will need to add the makefile options CONFIG_CLOCK_GETTIME=n CONFIG_MPI=n CONFIG_ZLIB=n CC=cc
> > > in Eclipse I think.
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