[Pkg-octave-devel] liboctave-dev insists on serial version of the hdf5 library

[Sébastien Villemot]

Sébastien Villemot <sebastien.villemot at ens.fr> writes:

> Using the MPI version of HDF5 with liboctave-dev was not working (see
> #598227). Then the HDF5 maintainers encouraged us to enforce the serial
> version.

I have just tested the solution that Thomas had implemented for Squeeze,
which was:

- make liboctave-dev depend on libhdf5-dev | libhdf5-openmpi-dev |
  libhdf5-mpich2-dev

- add -I/usr/include/mpi to XTRA_CXXFLAGS in mkoctfile

This change should not introduce new bugs.

Then I have been able to compile octave-optim (which compiles .oct
files) with libhdf5-openmpi-dev installed, and also with
libhdf5-mpich2-dev.

So it looks that this simple change solves the co-instability issue of
HDF5/MPI with liboctave-dev.

As an additional benefit, that would allow us to reintroduce back
octave-bim and octave-msh, and to upgrade to the latest version of
octave-secs1d.

So my impression is that we should implement it, given its clear
benefits, and despite the fact that explicitley adding a -I flag is a
bit ugly.

Thomas, Rafael: what do you think? Am I missing something?

Best,

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