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

[Jeff Squyres]

Heh.  Ok, fair enough -- we won't take the patch.  :-)

But know that we are ameniable to stuff like this, particularly if it  
doesn't change our defaults but can be used to help distro maintainers.


On Jan 13, 2009, at 9:33 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:

>
> (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
>
> -- 
> Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions.


-- 
Jeff Squyres
Cisco Systems