[ptp-dev] Exception encountered with performance tool integration

[Max Billingsley III <billingsley@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am finally allocating some time again to the integration of our Parallel 
Performance Wizard tool with PTP by way of the External Tools Framework (ETFw). 
 After installing what I believe to be the latest versions of the relevant 
plugins with Eclipse 3.4.1, I am encountering an issue when trying to invoke a 
Profile Configuration using our tool.  Specifically, a null pointer exception is 
thrown and the message
  'Instrumenting/Building' has encountered a problem.
appears.

I'd appreciate any help in nailing down this problem.  I will probably work on 
getting my Eclipse setup going to build PTP itself, so I may try to track down 
the problem... but I am not currently up to speed on the relevant internals.

Thanks,

-Max

I am using the following Eclipse and plugin versions:

Eclipse version 3.4.1 (build M20080911-1700)
CDT version 5.0.2.200901090802
PTP version 2.1.1.200901091901

Here are the error details from the error log:

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java.lang.NullPointerException
at 
org.eclipse.ptp.perf.internal.PerfBuilder.initMMBuildConf(PerfBuilder.java:350) 
at 
org.eclipse.ptp.perf.internal.PerfBuilder.buildIndstrumented(PerfBuilder.java:123)
at org.eclipse.ptp.perf.internal.PerfBuilder.run(PerfBuilder.java:474)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:55)
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And this is the tool XML file I am trying to use:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<toolset.01>
<tool name="PPW">
  <compile replace="true">
    <CC command="ppwmpicc" group="ppw">
      <optionpane title="PPW Compiler Wrapper" prependwith=""
		  enclosewith="" separatewith=" ">
	<togoption label="Instrument functions"
		   optname="--inst-functions"
		   tooltip="Track all function entries and exits"
		   defstate="false"/>
      </optionpane>
    </CC>
    <CXX command="" group="ppw"/>
    <F90 command="" group="ppw"/>
  </compile>
  <execute>
    <utility command="perl" group="perl"/>
    <utility command="ppwrun" group="ppw">
      <argument value="--output=ppw_eclipse.par"/>
      <optionpane title="PPW Program Run" prependwith=""
		  enclosewith="" enclosevalues="" separatewith=" ">
	<togoption label="Enable tracing"
		   optname="--trace"
		   tooltip="Record full program trace during run"/>
        <togoption label="Trace buffer size"
                   optname="--trace-buffer"
		   tooltip="Set the trace buffer size to the specified number of bytes (most 
users should not need to change this)">
          <optvalue type="text" default=""></optvalue>
	</togoption>
	<togoption label="Collect communication statistics"
		   optname="--comm-stats"
		   tooltip="Record statistics on (explicit and implicit) communication during 
program run"/>
	<togoption label="Collect per-line communication statistics"
		   optname="--line-comm-stats"
		   tooltip="Record per-line statistics on (explicit and implicit) 
communication during program run"
		   defstate="false"/>
      </optionpane>
    </utility>
  </execute>
  <analyze>
    <utility type="view" command="ppw" group="ppw">
      <argument value="ppw_eclipse.par"/>
    </utility>
  </analyze>
</tool>
</toolset.01>
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