[pkg-boost-devel] problem with boost::mpi on sparc ?

Christophe Prud'homme prudhomm at debian.org
Sat Jun 5 21:16:25 UTC 2010


>
>
> Hi Steve,
>


> > I got the message below with buildd on sparc fir the package life. There
> are
> > no such problem on the other platforms. any ideas ?
> > it looks like the lib is there but it is somewhat empty or something or
> > missing some of the symbols
> >
> > boost::mpi::communicator::operator ompi_communicator_t*()
>
> This looks like an Open MPI symbol.  However, Boost is built using
> mpi-default-dev which, for Sparc, build-depends on lam4-dev so I
> wouldn't have expected that symbol.
>

So does life, I build-depend on mpi-default-dev, I will check the package I
use.
However isn't it weird that it is only boost::mpi functions that complain
about the missing openmi stuff ?


>
> My first suspicion is somehow boost is built with one implementation
> of MPI and life is built with another.  The build log confirms that
> both openmpi and lam are pulled in as dependencies.
> I know there is some talk of updating MPI, but I'm not sure what has
> happened.  The PTS suggests that nothing has happened yet but
> you might want to check with the appropriate folks.
>
I will check with the mpi guys


>
> Let me know what you find out.
>
yup

thanks a lot for your quick reply !

Best regards
C.
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