[Pkg-openmpi-maintainers] Bug#456721: libpetsc.so depends on unexistent libraries

[Manuel Prinz]

Am Montag, den 17.12.2007, 16:16 -0500 schrieb Adam C Powell IV:
> As the maintainer of mpich, I do not see any conflicts here.
> libmpich1.0ldbl has: libmpich.so.1.0, libfmpich.so.1.0,
> libpmpich.so.1.0, libpmpich++.so.1.0, libtvmpich.so.1.0, and
> libmpe.so.1.0 .  There's no ABI compatibility between any of the MPI
> implementations, so the sonames should be different, and then there will
> be no conflict in /usr/lib right?  If we want to take advantage of API
> compatibility, then the -dev package .so files should be alternatives
> symlinks, which they are.  But not the soname-named symlinks.  These
> should only overlap if there is ABI compatibility, as with the various
> BLAS and LAPACK implementations.

Right. I'm working on that. It was supposed to work exactly like that
and should not be too hard to fix.

> If LAM and OpenMPI conflict, then IMO LAM should defer to OpenMPI for
> the reasons found in http://www.open-mpi.org/faq/?category=general#why :
> the LAM project has merged with OpenMPI and its maintainers have joined
> the OpenMPI team!

Indeed.

Best regards
Manuel
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