[BIOSAL] Minimal build of thorium actor applications

George K. Thiruvathukal gkt at cs.luc.edu
Tue Nov 4 21:37:15 CST 2014 

​I think we can make this work with ordinary make using vpath.

It's not a huge priority now. I may try to work on it after getting some
other more important work done, like my example code(s).

See you tomorrow.

George​

George K. Thiruvathukal, PhD
*Professor of Computer Science*, Loyola University Chicago
*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
<http://www.computer.org/portal/web/computingnow/cise> (IEEE CS/AIP)
(w) gkt.tv (v) 773.829.4872


On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 8:06 PM, Boisvert, Sebastien <boisvert at anl.gov>
wrote:

> > 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > There's one other thing I wanted to put on our radar.
> >
> >
> > 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>).
> >
> >
> > 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).
> >
> >
> > 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.
>
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > George
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > George K. Thiruvathukal, PhD
> >
> > Professor of Computer Science, Loyola University Chicago
> >
> > 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)
> >
> > (w) gkt.tv (v)
> >  773.829.4872
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Boisvert, Sebastien
> > <boisvert at anl.gov> wrote:
> >
> > Great !
> >
> > > From: George K. Thiruvathukal [gkt at cs.luc.edu]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2014 4:38 PM
> > > To: Boisvert, Sebastien
> > > Cc:
> > biosal at lists.cels.anl.gov
> > > Subject: Re: [BIOSAL] Minimal build of thorium actor applications
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > > ​Seb,
> > >
> > >
> > > Just letting you know, everything is working! This is going to be
> really helpful for me (and, I hope, others).
> > >
> > >
> > > Best,
> > > George​
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > George K. Thiruvathukal, PhD
> > >
> > > Professor of Computer Science, Loyola University Chicago
> > >
> > > 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)
> > >
> > > (w)
> > gkt.tv (v)
> > >  773.829.4872
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 3:10 PM, Boisvert, Sebastien
> > > <boisvert at anl.gov> wrote:
> > >
> > > Yes
> > >
> > > Option list:
> > >
> >
> https://github.com/sebhtml/biosal/blob/master/Documentation/Compilation_Options.md
> > >
> > >
> > > You probably want to use something like this:
> > >
> > > make -j CONFIG_MPI=n CC=cc
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > From: George K. Thiruvathukal [gkt at cs.luc.edu]
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2014 2:45 PM
> > > > To: Boisvert, Sebastien
> > > > Cc:
> > >
> > biosal at lists.cels.anl.gov
> > > > Subject: Re: [BIOSAL] Minimal build of thorium actor applications
> > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Hi Seb,
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > This is fantastic news! If I pull from upstream (sebhtml/master),
> will I pick this up?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > George
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > George K. Thiruvathukal, PhD
> > > >
> > > > Professor of Computer Science, Loyola University Chicago
> > > >
> > > > 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)
> > > >
> > > > (w)
> > >
> > gkt.tv (v)
> > > >  773.829.4872
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 9:37 AM, Boisvert, Sebastien
> > > > <boisvert at anl.gov> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Following George's request, I added some options to do minimal
> builds:
> > > >
> > > > "-lrt" is no longer needed, there is a fallback path with
> gettimeofday.
> > > >
> > > > For MPI, I had to add "mock_transport" which only sets the rank to 0
> and the size to 1.
> > > >
> > > >     The new minimal build only needs libm, libc, and libpthread.
> > > >
> > > >     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.
> > > >
> > > >     $ 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)
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > That should be easier like this to build on POWER7 or on k1om (or in
> Eclipse).
> > > >
> > > > George:
> > > >
> > > > 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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