[Pkg-openmpi-maintainers] [OMPI devel] Building with rpath disabled

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

(I pruned the OMPI list from recipients. --Dirk)

I just realized that another Debian/Ubuntu-only possibility is to use a file
inside /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ to make the ompi directory known to ld.so. I do so
for R:

  edd at ron:~$ cat /etc/ld.so.conf.d/libR.conf
  # make libR.so and libRlapack.so visible to ld.so
  /usr/lib/R/lib
  edd at ron:~$

(and then forget most of the time about it and still link with rpath when I
embed R into application :-) 

We could do the same for /usr/lib/openmpi/lib and
/usr/lib/openmpi/lib/openmpi.  That said, I generally think we should
minimise difference from upstream.  So my preference is still for not waking
any sleeping dragons ... 

Dirk

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