Re: [Caml-list] Opam on Blue-Gene

[Anthony Scemama <scemama@irsamc.ups-tlse.fr>]

Hi Louis,
Thank you very much for your help!
Using the current development version of OCaml, everything compiles
perfectly under ppc64.
I could also install opam with no problem.


On 01/15/2016 02:48 PM, Louis Gesbert wrote:
> Hi Anthony
>
>> I don't know what else I can do to make my code run on a BlueGene machine
>> (Mira at Argonne), and I am trying to convince people that HPC is not only
>> limited to Fortran or C/C++ using MPI and OpenMP :-(
> This indeed sounds like a noble cause! We've had successful builds on ppc64 
> already (power8), so the architecture should'nt be a problem -- you will need 
> to get on the OCaml 4.03 dev branch though, as we had to write a few fixes 
> over 4.02.3 for this.
>
> I have otherwise little idea on your build issues. Did you use GNU make ?
>
> The opam_installer.sh script only works for targets for which we provide 
> precompiled binaries, and these don't include ppc64, so you will have to build 
> from source -- getting the inclusive archives linked at 
> http://opam.ocaml.org/doc/Install.html#FromSources and following the build 
> instructions at https://github.com/ocaml/opam/blob/master/README.md#compiling-this-repo should be easiest.
>
> Best,
> Louis Gesbert - OCamlPro

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Anthony Scemama
Laboratoire de Chimie et Physique Quantiques
IRSAMC - CNRS - Universite de Toulouse