Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: jonesmb@ziplink.net
Subject: adding pvm architectures
Organization: ZipLink -- America's Hottest ISP
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 1997 06:51:10 GMT
Message-ID: <33950389.11368669@news>

Hello all,
I have a pvm setup with a bunch of Sun SPARC 5s & 20s, Ultras and SGI
Indys and Power Challenge computers.  I have a problem with the PVM
arches for the SGI machines.  The pvmgetarch script reports SGI64 for
both the Indy and Power Challenge.  (SGI64 = SGI with Irix 6.x)  The
problem with this is that the Indy and Power Challenge both have 6.2,
but the Indy has a 32bit processor(?) and the Power Challenge is 64bit
(?).  The SGI64.def file in the conf directory has some 64bit-specific
compiler options (-64 -TENV -woff etc) that won't work for 32bit
compilation for the  Indy.  I hacked the pvmgetarch file and a  .c
file, created an SGI32.def file and added an extra architecture
(SGI32) to accomodate the Indy.  What/who do I contact for help with
adding additional host arches.  There is probably more to it than what
I did, even though it appears to work.  
I believe that the current method for distinguishing between the
diferent SGI arches needs to be modified so pvm can differentiate
between the 32bit and 64bit machines running Irix 6.x.  What do you
think?
Regards
JonesMB