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

Manuel Prinz debian at pinguinkiste.de
Tue Oct 14 20:35:55 UTC 2008


Am Dienstag, den 14.10.2008, 13:53 -0500 schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel:
> On 14 October 2008 at 12:23, Gary Hennigan wrote:
> | 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.  

IIRC, we did some time ago in the past. I'm not sure if we dropped them
on purpose or accidentally but I think I remember we had a discussion
about that. I just can't look it up at the moment.

Anyway, I remember that we have had --enable-static in debian/rules at
some point in time, as described in the FAQ, maybe at the 1.1 series or
maybe even later. I think it should not be too much of a big deal to
reenable that. I personally never had much use for static libs since
it's usually more of a burdon than help but if it helps our users, we
should include them. It should not be too tricky.

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

Building them and installing the .[l]a files into the right places. That
should be all.

> 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 ?

I'll try to have a look at the weekend, also addressing other packaging
issues then. Sooner is not possible, so if someone steps in, I wouldn't
be sad about it. ;)

Best regards
Manuel
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