[ewg] duplicate member error when building infinipath-psm-3.1-364.1140

[Jack Hill]

On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 22:21:12 +0000
"Elken, Tom" <tom.elken at intel.com> wrote:

> > When compiling infinipath-psm with gcc versions >=4.6 it fails to
> > build with the following error, "ptl_ips/ips_proto_header.h:81:12:
> > error: duplicate member ‘dst_subcontext’".
> [Tom] 
> Thanks for pointing this out.  
> A PSM developer tells me that you can remove that line 81 from
> source, and re-compile.
> 
> Can you file a Bug on this at the Open Fabrics Bugzilla?
> Product: Open Fabrics Linux
> Component:  QIB driver   ( I see that there is no PSM component;
> I'll try to get that fixed)

Thanks for the suggestion. I tried it and it solved the error. The bug
is <http://bugs.openfabrics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2430>.

> > I could not find the infinipath-psm repository on
> > git.openfabrics.org. Where can I find it?
> [Tom] 
> git://github.com/01org/psm

Thank you.

> > 
> > Also, in order to (try to) build infinipath-psm, I had to remove
> > -Werror from BASECFLAGS in buildflags.mak. I subscribe to the
> > philosophy that -Werror is a development tool and should not be
> > used by default in the distributed sources [1].
> [Tom] 
> We don't subscribe to that philosophy. :) 
> The fact that the code should compile warning free is part of our
> assurance of quality.  If a user is encountering a warning we didn't,
> we don't want that to be a silent event.  If the user wants to press
> on and ignore an error, they can remove the -Werror flag.

After making the above change I turned -Werror back on and did not
experience any warnings with both GCC 4.6 and 4.8.

Best,
Jack
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