[Pkg-openmpi-maintainers] [Pkg-openmpi-commits] r163 - in /openmpi/trunk/debian: control patches/autogen patches/autoreconf patches/series rules

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 28 January 2009 at 23:34, Manuel Prinz wrote:
| Hi you may notice, this change introduces an 25 MB patch. This is very
| unfortunate but I do not see other options: In order to get the patches
| that fix the sparc and alpha issue and add the mips support to work, the
| autotools-related files needed an update. The only sane way to do it
| seems to be calling upstream's ./autogen.sh which unfortunately requires
| libtool >= 2.2, which is in experimental only. Since we can't build-dep
| on a package in experimental, I updated the autotools-files with the
| required version and added the result as a patch; which is this giant
| piece. I use libtool 2.2 from experimental privately for some time now
| and did not have issues, so I guess it's safe. I do not know if everyone
| agrees with this steps but as I see it, it's either a large .diff.gz or
| no upload before libtool 2.2 enters unstable which will probably be
| after the release of Lenny.

FWIW I have a regression on amd64 (on Ubuntu) with Rmpi which segfaults. So
far the only main difference is ... that Ubuntu uses libtool 2.2.4.  So this
will help/
 
| Since we do not know for sure if the patches fix all issues, I recommend
| uploading as is, that means no "closes" in the changelog. If the issues
| get fixed, we can close them via email with version information (I
| volunteer to do so) and change the changelog accordingly before the next
| upload. From what I heared, this is considered OK to do.
| 
| If you could test the package, that would be great. If noone objects,
| I'll upload the current version tomorrow.

Sounds good. We do need to address these 'does not build' issues. And if it
requires a monster patch, so be it.

Dirk

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