Re: [Boost-users] [EXTERNAL] Re: [MPI] missing symbols using serialization's static library design

On Oct 18, 2012, at 5:26 PM, "Barrett, Brian W" wrote:

On 10/17/12 1:00 PM, "Robert Ramey" wrote:

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Barrett, Brian W wrote:

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I know how to determine which MPI archivers need to be explicitly instantiated, but as I said, that's a rather unsatisfying answer to the problem. It appears that the list of archivers I have to explicitly instantiate has changed along the way from Boost 1.43.0 (the version that was current when we started the project) and Boost 1.51.0. At least one of the archivers is in the detail namespace, so the authors clearly believe such details are internal to the implementation. This puts us in a rather large support bind. I was hoping that there would be a better way (like a macro to help with the explicit instantiation or something similar.

How about suggesting a patch to the MPI serialization inplementation which would sync this implementation up with the others.

Unfortunately, I'm barely competent in using Boost.MPI and Boost.Serialization. I'm definitely not in a position to be able to apply a patch.

What I'm getting from your responses and the general silence elsewhere is that the right answer is to deal with the incompatibilities between versions of Boost and explicitly instantiate all the internal MPI archivers and hope for the best. It's a little painful, but I think we can do that.

can you send me a test code that shows the problem and I will try to resolve your issue? ALso, which hardware platform are you trying to compile it on? Matthias