[Pkg-openmpi-maintainers] Bug#502232: Bug#502232: libopenmpi-dev: No static libraries in the package

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 14 October 2008 at 12:23, Gary Hennigan wrote:
| Package: libopenmpi-dev
| Version: 1.2.7~rc2-2
| Severity: wishlist
| 
| A lot of Debian lib*-dev packages also include static libraries. When
| we distribute our application we'll often include statically linked
| binaries so that users don't have to try and go through a complicated
| list of prerequisites in order to build on their system. Unfortunately
| I can't do that with my MPI applications because there aren't any
| static libraries avaialble in the Debian OpenMPI packages. Any chance
| you could start distributing static versions of the OpenMPI libraries?

According to FAQ 7 at http://www.open-mpi.org/faq/?category=building it
should be as simple as adding --enable-static to the configure call to these
build.  

We then have to look into getting them properly into the package. 

We are all a little short of spare time.  Could you possibly venture into the
first point and see if modifying debian/rules accordingly results in usable
static libraries ?

Dirk

| 
| Thanks,
| Gary
| 
| -- System Information:
| Debian Release: lenny/sid
|   APT prefers testing
|   APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
| Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
| 
| Kernel: Linux 2.6.26.03oct08 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
| Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
| Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
| 
| Versions of packages libopenmpi-dev depends on:
| ii  libc6                        2.7-14      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
| ii  libopenmpi1                  1.2.7~rc2-2 high performance message passing l
| ii  openmpi-common               1.2.7~rc2-2 high performance message passing l
| 
| libopenmpi-dev recommends no packages.
| 
| libopenmpi-dev suggests no packages.
| 
| -- no debconf information
| 
| 
| 
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