>Number:         5922
>Category:       pkg
>Synopsis:       mpi-ch pkg
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    gnats-admin (GNATS administrator)
>State:          open
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Aug  7 03:35:00 1998
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Tim Rightnour
>Organization:
Tim Rightnour    -  root@garbled.net
http://www.zynetwc.com/~garbled/garbled.html
>Release:        1.3<NetBSD-current source date>
>Environment:
	
System: NetBSD polaris 1.3 NetBSD 1.3 (POLARIS) #0: Thu Mar 26 13:17:18 MST 1998 root@polaris:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/POLARIS i386


>Description:
Inital go at a pkg for MPI. (Message Passing Interface)

Errata:
The install target is.. odd..

It wants perl.. but I can't find where the heck it uses it.. Maybe they are
just thinking ahead?

The TK interface doesn't build..  It seems to want tk 3.6 and tcl 7.6..
we don't ship these.  I attempted to fiddle it to work with our tk, and
got alot of the nastywork out of the way.. but I don't know enough tk/tcl
to get it working..

The pkg uses X11 to build a few things if you have it.. but punts if you dont.
So it won't bail out on you if you have no X11 stuff.

It works well..  I ran all the tests on my i386, and it passed them all except
the long messages test.  That one failed because The machine *ran out of 
memory* and swapped itself to death.. :(  It looks like the test would pass,
if I had more than 64megs of mem.. if you want to run the tests..  you might
want to comment that one out.. I saw RSS's of 80 MB, and it launches 5 of them!

	
>How-To-Repeat:
Beat head violently against wall after machine wedges from paging death.
Comment out test and get on with life.
	
>Fix:
http://www.futureone.com/~garbled/mpich.tar.gz
	
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