TAO Questions and Bug Reports

The TAO e-mail address tao-comments@mcs.anl.gov  is intended for users to communicate with the TAO developers on topics such as

• reporting bugs,
• asking for clarification,
• asking for help in tracking down bugs, and
• requesting new features within TAO.

We try to respond to this email promptly. Please do not send maintenance requests to the individual TAO authors; all e-mail to tao-comments@mcs.anl.gov is automatically distributed to all of the TAO authors, so our response time using this address will be fastest.

Guidelines for Bug Reports

The more information that you convey about a bug, the easier it will be for us to target the problem. We suggest providing the following information:

• If the problem involves installation, then send the entire log file from running make.
• Machine type: (e.g., solaris)
• OS Version: (run uname -a to get the version number)
• TAO Version: (run the TAO program with -v, or look in the file ${TAO_DIR}/include/tao_version.h)
• MPI implementation: (e.g., MPICH, LAM, IBM, SGI)
• Compiler
• Problem description: Also, please cut and paste error messages from the compiler, program, etc.