[Pkg-openmpi-maintainers] Bug#464795: Bug#464795: dead symlink in /usr/lib/libmpi.so

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 9 February 2008 at 02:01, Ondrej Certik wrote:
| Package: libopenmpi-dev
| Version: 1.2.5-1
| Severity: normal
| 
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| Hi, 
| 
| there seems to be a dead symlink in:
| 
| $ ll /usr/lib/libmpi.so
| lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 2008-02-09 01:56 /usr/lib/libmpi.so -> /etc/alternatives/libmpi.so
| 
| It's on all of my computers. Some misconfiguration of update-alternatives on my side?

Possibly so.  All well here:

edd at ron:~> ls -l /usr/lib/libmpi.so /etc/alternatives/libmpi.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 2008-01-20 19:42 /etc/alternatives/libmpi.so -> /usr/lib/openmpi/lib/libmpi.so.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 2007-12-18 21:02 /usr/lib/libmpi.so -> /etc/alternatives/libmpi.so
edd at ron:~>    

and evidently on buildds using Open MPI.  So please demonstrate how/why a
stray file on your system is/was caused by Open Mpi -- else I'll have to
close this for lack of any discernible evidence.

Thanks, Dirk

| 
| Thanks,
| Ondrej
| 
| --- System information. ---
| Architecture: i386
| Kernel:       Linux 2.6.24-1-686
| 
| Debian Release: lenny/sid
|   500 unstable        ftp.cz.debian.org 
| 
| --- Package information. ---
| Depends              (Version) | Installed
| ==============================-+-============
| libopenmpi1        (= 1.2.5-1) | 1.2.5-1
| openmpi-common     (= 1.2.5-1) | 1.2.5-1
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