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

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Sébastien Villemot <sebastien.villemot at ens.fr> [2012-08-09 12:19]:

> 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.

I am failing to replicate the above with the patch that you sent today.
When I install the patched version of the packages, liboctave1 still
depends on libhdf5-7, which conflicts with libhdf5-openmpi-7, and that
prevents the installation of libhdf5-openmpi-dev.  I am surely missing
something here.
 
Rafael