[Pkg-openmpi-maintainers] Compiler into -dev package?

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 12 September 2007 at 17:46, Manuel Prinz wrote:
| Hi all,
| 
| while working on a package that makes use of MPI, I noticed that all
| other MPI implementations ship the compilers in the -dev package, we
| have them in -bin, which adds an extra build dependancy when using
| openmpi.

And I guess it keep the 'pure library' packages (that users have to install)
smaller as the tools they may not use get moved over to -dev.
| 
| Should we change our packages in the same way? I can't see any strong
| argument against at the moment. What's your opinion on that? I think
| I'll have some spare time this weekend to do so.

I think that's fine esp. as we don't have that many other packages depend on it.

| Best regards
| Manuel
| 
| P.S.: I got some help from a friend of mine in fixing the build-issue on
| Sparc which prevents OpenMPI from being accepted in testing. But this
| may take a while still. (He has a machine to test, at least.)

Most excellent news!

Dirk

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