Marc Vef authored Feb 23, 2018 and Marc Vef committed Mar 02, 2018

Recompile mercury for local I/O to work

Users may use -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_DEBUG to add addition compiler flags for debug mode.

-g -O2 has been replaced with -O3 in all cases.

The file position of a newly created OpenFile
it wasn't set correctly to 0.

See https://xgitlab.cels.anl.gov/sds/margo/issues/40 for reference of the issue.

Through boost::program_option it is possible to specify which are
the mandatory parameter and to print a proper error message in case some
of them is missing.

5.10.2 -> 5.10.3

5.10.2 couldn't be compiled with gcc 7 due to a rocksDB bug [1]

[1]: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/issues/3486

The download script can be used to update dependencies source code by
pull the new version and performing a checkout to that version.
Without forcing (-f) the checkout files that have been modified or
patched won't be updated correctly.

Do not force a specific c(++) compiler by setting the
CMAKE_{}_COMPILER variable.
After the c(++) compiler binary has been choosen check if it is the GNU compilear.

In this way we allow the users to specify a GNU compiler under a non
standard path through the CC and CXX envirnoment variable.

Preload lib: RPC/IPC Mercury/Margo environments are only initialized if the mountdir path is used by the application
For that, the daemon writes the mountdir (it was started with) to a configurable path to disk.
The libraries read this value and only the process that uses part of this path will actually trigger the environment initialization.
This forbids prior behavior where applications initialize the whole environment numerous times, although unused.
For example, any MPI program will spawn multiple processes, all with the LD_PRELOAD environment variable set.

Configure file is split into a public and private part to distinguish file system configurations from monitoring, for example