hi,
i am trying to get some benchmarking numbers on the Itanium2, running
Debian.

I use the following ..
make CXX=icpc CC=icc CXXFLAGS="-O3 -cxxlib-icc -prof_gen
-prof_dir=/../../../povray4/povray-3.6.1/profgen1
-I/../../../povray4/povray3.6.1/libraries/jpeg   " CFLAGS="-O3 -prof_gen
-prof_dir=/../../../povray4/povray-3.6.1/profgen1
-I/../../../povray4/povray-3.6.1/libraries/jpeg
-I/opt/intel_cc_80/include/c++"

this creates the .dyn files in my prof_dir folder.

Now when i try to run the benchmark..

time /../../../povray4/povray-3.6.1/unix/povray benchmark.ini

it fails giving the follwoing erro..

Persistence of Vision(tm) Ray Tracer Version 3.6.1 (icpc 8.1  @
 ia64-unknown-linux-gnu)
This is an unofficial version compiled by:
 ssp
 The POV-Ray Team(tm) is not responsible for supporting this version.
POV-Ray is based on DKBTrace 2.12 by David K. Buck & Aaron A. Collins
Copyright 1991-2003 Persistence of Vision Team
Copyright 2003-2004 Persistence of Vision Raytracer Pty. Ltd.

Primary POV-Ray 3.5/3.6 Developers: (Alphabetically)
  Chris Cason         Thorsten Froehlich  Nathan Kopp         Ron Parker

Contributing Authors: (Alphabetically)
  Steve Anger         Eric Barish         Dieter Bayer        Steve A.
Bennett
  David K. Buck       Nicolas Calimet     Aaron A. Collins    Chris Dailey
  Steve Demlow        Andreas Dilger      Alexander Enzmann   Dan Farmer
  Mark Gordon         Christoph Hormann   Mike Hough          Chris Huff
  Kari Kivisalo       Lutz Kretzschmar    Jochen Lippert      Pascal
Massimino
  Jim McElhiney       Douglas Muir        Juha Nieminen       Bill Pulver
  Eduard Schwan       Wlodzimierz Skiba   Robert Skinner      Yvo
Smellenbergh
  Zsolt Szalavari     Scott Taylor        Massimo Valentini   Timothy Wegner
  Drew Wells          Chris Young

Other contributors are listed in the documentation.

Support libraries used by POV-Ray:
  ZLib 1.2.1, Copyright 1995-1998 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler
  LibPNG 1.2.5, Copyright 1998-2002 Glenn Randers-Pehrson
  LibJPEG 6b, Copyright 1998 Thomas G. Lane
  LibTIFF 3.6.1, Copyright 1988-1997 Sam Leffler, 1991-1997 SGI
Redirecting Options
  All Streams to console..........On
  Debug Stream to console.........On
  Fatal Stream to console.........On
  Render Stream to console........On
  Statistics Stream to console....On
  Warning Stream to console.......On
Parsing Options
  Input file: benchmark.pov (compatible to version 3.50)
  Remove bounds........On
  Split unions.........Off
  Library paths:
    /povray-3.6/share/povray-3.6
    /povray-3.6/share/povray-3.6/ini
    /povray-3.6/share/povray-3.6/include
    /share/povray-3.6
    /share/povray-3.6/ini
    /share/povray-3.6/include
    /usr/local/share/povray-3.6
    /usr/local/share/povray-3.6/ini
    /usr/local/share/povray-3.6/include
Output Options
  Image resolution 384 by 384 (rows 1 to 384, columns 1 to 384).
  Graphic display......Off
  Mosaic preview.......Off
  CPU usage histogram..Off
  Continued trace......Off
Tracing Options
  Quality:  9
  Bounding boxes.......On   Bounding threshold: 3
  Light Buffer.........On
  Vista Buffer.........On   Draw Vista Buffer....Off
  Antialiasing.........On  (Method 1, Threshold 0.300, Depth 3, Jitter 1.00)
  Clock value:    0.000  (Animation off)

  0:00:00 Parsing
File: benchmark.pov  Line: 136
File Context (5 lines):
// Width=384
//
// ==================================================================
#version
Parse Error: Expected 'object or directive', undeclared identifier '' found
 instead
Total Scene Processing Times
  Parse Time:    0 hours  0 minutes  0 seconds (0 seconds)
  Photon Time:   0 hours  0 minutes  0 seconds (0 seconds)
  Render Time:   0 hours  0 minutes  0 seconds (0 seconds)
  Total Time:    0 hours  0 minutes  0 seconds (0 seconds)
0.029u 0.008s 0:00.06 33.3%     0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w

Any feedback will be appreciated.
thankyou,
shailesh

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> running
> Debian.

	Not necessarily a good idea  ;-)  (private joke)

> I use the following ..
> make CXX=icpc CC=icc CXXFLAGS="-O3 -cxxlib-icc -prof_gen
> -prof_dir=/../../../povray4/povray-3.6.1/profgen1
> -I/../../../povray4/povray3.6.1/libraries/jpeg   " CFLAGS="-O3 -prof_gen
> -prof_dir=/../../../povray4/povray-3.6.1/profgen1
> -I/../../../povray4/povray-3.6.1/libraries/jpeg
> -I/opt/intel_cc_80/include/c++"

	In general, you'd better pass all those flags at configure time,
as giving them to 'make' will override anything that configure has set.
But in this particular context that is not critical.  Only I'm not sure
whether the linker gets the correct -prof_xxx flags here.

> this creates the .dyn files in my prof_dir folder.

	Only when you actually run the binary  :-)
	Note that running configure will also create some .dyn files.  You
should remove them before running povray on your test suite (or at least,
before profmerge will be used to compile the final binary with PGO).
	Also you might need to add other platform-specific flags at the final
compilation pass to better suit your Itanium2; check the icc docs.

> #version
> Parse Error: Expected 'object or directive', undeclared identifier '' found
>  instead

	Assuming your benchmark.pov file was not screwed up somehow, it seems
you indeed have a problem with the binary you compiled.  I have myself prepared
several binaries with icc 8.1 and PGO, similarly as you did, and don't face
such problem.  The only important difference is that I don't use the -cxxlib-icc
flag, i.e. icc links with the gcc libs instead (which is the default behaviour;
in my case these are the 3.4.x gcc libs).
	I'd suggest to try again without the flag (if gcc is installed on your
system) and see whether it solves your problem.  Otherwise I have no idea what
can possibly happen here  :-(

	- NC

PS: just out of curiosity, which version of glibc is installed on your Debian
     distro?

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