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Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 19:57:50 +0200
From: magnum <rawsmooth@...dband.net>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: openmpi 1.4.3 and JTR 1.7.7 error compiling
On 2011-05-10 16:51, Solar Designer wrote:
> magnum - just why did the older version of MPI that W.A. has been using
> for a long time with older versions of JtR and the MPI patch suddenly
> become inappropriate for the new version of JtR and/or for the new MPI
> patch? This was unexpected to me. I think there's something wrong
> about it. Maybe there's a bug somewhere in the patch, which needs to be
> fixed, and W.A. should continue using his version 1.2.8 of Open MPI?
The MPI patch for john, afaik, supports any stone-age MPI environment.
In fact it has workarounds for a couple of problems with specific MPI
environments (the few that was reported to me or the list). But it is
generally a very good idea to use the latest stable one.
W.A. had a spectacular crash triggered just by the fact he forgot to say
"--pot" before the potfile, thus giving a non-existing input file. I
suspected it had nothing to do with john but the MPI environment. I also
thought Macs had some kind of packet manager or other means of easy
installation/upgrade - if I had realised how much trouble WA would have
upgrading, I would not have given that advice that soon.
magnum
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