[gentoo-soc] Re: Application Antoine Gicquel

[Justin Bronder <jsbronder@gentoo.org>]

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On 04/03/19 12:47 +0300, Andrew Savchenko wrote:
> Hi Antoine!
> 
> On Sat, 2 Mar 2019 15:47:41 +0000 Antoine Gicquel wrote:
> > I think I have the skills needed to carry out those projects and learn a 
> > lot. Moreover, I can learn the necessary skills very quickly to be the 
> > most productive for the 3 months for GSoC.
> 
> The most important skill for the MPI project will be ebuild and
> eclass writing experience. It needs to be strong before the coding
> period will start, since coding involved is quite complex and there
> will be no time for learning the basics.
> 
> You can start by fixing some bugs from our bugzilla. You may select
> sci and mpi related bugs, but this is not required. What is
> important that you should be fluent with ebuilds and eclasses and
> that comes from experience.

If you're looking for somewhere to start that would be very relevant to the
project, take a look at the following two bugs.

This one has to do with something new in OpenMPI-4.0.0 not playing well with
multilib.eclass.  Despite being told to build 32-bit binaries, it's building 64.
https://bugs.gentoo.org/671510

This one popped up recently and I haven't had time to investigate.
https://bugs.gentoo.org/680236

Finally, OpenMPI-4.0.1 is out as well as Mpich 3.3.  Both ebuilds could use
version bumps.


> 
> You will likely have technical questions about ebuild writing, so
> keep an eye on our developer manual:
> https://devmanual.gentoo.org/
> 


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Justin Bronder

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