[PerfSuite-users] PAPI 3.0.7 test case failures

[Rick K. <rk...@nc...>]

This is a heads-up note to alert you that there will be test suite
runtime errors in the recent release of PerfSuite (0.6.1rc1) if built
with PAPI 3.0.7 using the Pentium III or Itanium PAPI substrates.

These are minor errors that arise from the way that PAPI sets the
default counting domain (user/kernel/all) for event sets. They do not 
affect the overall use of psrun or libpshwpc.

You can safely ignore these errors and run the entire PerfSuite test 
suite to completion with "make -k check".  A similar problem was 
identified and corrected in PAPI with the Pentium 4 PAPI substrate and has 
been entered in the PAPI 3 bug tracking system for these other platforms 
so it's not expected to cause any problems in the future (but might be a
bit disconcerting for anyone building today).

Rick