[Pkg-openmpi-maintainers] Too-generic SONAME for OpenMPI?

Nicholas Breen nbreen at ofb.net
Mon Feb 11 19:51:31 UTC 2008


On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 07:02:12PM +0100, Manuel Prinz wrote:
> Besides, does this issue affect runtime behavior in any way? Or is this
> a build-issue only?

It causes build failures at link time.  There is no final binary.

> So, nothing new from my side. I was just quite busy with RL and wanted
> to let you know that this issue is not forgotten. I'd like to have a

I understand that all too well!  "research Conflicts: free-time"
 
>  0. Though upstream is very responsive and supportive, I don't think not
> playing well with LAM will convince them. LAM is deprecated and most of
> the LAM people are hacking OpenMPI now.

True, but LAM still has the edge in supported architectures, so there's
value in keeping both available until OpenMPI catches up.


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Nicholas Breen
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