From the packages README:
Version 1.2.5 is primarily a bug-fix release. New features include
Significantly better collective algorithms are available.
Major changes for the globus2 device and the ch_nt device.
Information on previous versions
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Features new or improved in Version 1.2.4 included:
SMP support has been inproved through the use of sched_yield. SMP Systems that
are not oversubscribed can consider configuring with --disable-yeild.
A number of bugs in the ch_p4, ch_p4mpd, and ch_shmem device hae been fixed.
These could cause programs to hang or generate error messages.
Features new or improved in Version 1.2.3 included:
Bug fixes and improved-portability,
particularly in the area of Linux and Mac OS X support. Other new features
include better support for Intel compilers, particularly for IA64 Linux,
better support for various Fortran compilers, and some fixes for rare race
conditions in the ch_p4 device. The documentation on the ch_p4mpd device and
the MPD system has been improved. Version 1.2.3 also includes all of the
source for both the Unix and Windows versions. Windows users should still
use the self-installing version available through the web page. The globus
device now supports version 2 of Globus.
Features new or improved in Version 1.2.2 included:
There are a number of improvements to the ch_p4 device that improve both
performance and reliability, particularly on Linux platforms.
Significant upgrades have been made to the MPD system of daemons that provide
fast startup of MPICH jobs, management of stdio, and a crude parallel debugger
based on gdb.
linda is an simple library implementation of Linda parallel
programming system (http://www.cs.yale.edu/Linda/linda.html). To
write a parallel program with linda, you have to know only 6
functions: spawn, out, in, inp, rd and rdp with linda.
the scripts/ directory, it will be run automatically as part of
the build process, by bsd.pkg.mk. There are now exactly 5 packages
in pkgsrc which use this facility, and yet, for every package build,
the existence of a script is checked by bsd.pkg.mk once before the
target is executed, and once afterwards. This incurs needless
overhead.
Move the separate pre- and post- script handling out of bsd.pkg.mk into
the individual package Makefiles, where it's much more obvious what is
happening, anyway.
foo-* to foo-[0-9]*. This is to cause the dependencies to match only the
packages whose base package name is "foo", and not those named "foo-bar".
A concrete example is p5-Net-* matching p5-Net-DNS as well as p5-Net. Also
change dependency examples in Packages.txt to reflect this.
Changes include:
Added new dvt command, which allows you to open xterms to multiple hosts
and control them all via one input window.
Added new jsh command, which allows better job scheduling specifically
designed for parallel compiling.
Multiple bugfixes and enhancements. Much much faster execution.
says to use type time_t for ctime(3).
- Fix some format strings for 64 bit systems.
- use '?=' instead of '='when setting the command used for rsh/ssh so the
user can set it in mk.conf (PVM_SSH).
you can do something like:
make CC="gcc -pipe" PKG_FC="f77 -pipe" CFLAGS="-Wformat -g" FFLAGS="-g"
and still have pvm compile correctly.
Addresses PR pkg/12949 submitted by Thor Simon <tls@cs.stevens-tech.edu>.
Add PLIST.java (contains additional installed files if a javac is
present during build).
Modify Makefile to take the possible presence of a Java compiler
into account.
