[Pkg-openmpi-commits] r80 - /openmpi/trunk/debian/libopenmpi-dev.README.Debian

[hauro-guest at users.alioth.debian.org]

Author: hauro-guest
Date: Tue Dec 11 21:32:07 2007
New Revision: 80

URL: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-openmpi/?sc=1&rev=80
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Added README.Debian for development package

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    openmpi/trunk/debian/libopenmpi-dev.README.Debian

Added: openmpi/trunk/debian/libopenmpi-dev.README.Debian
URL: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-openmpi/openmpi/trunk/debian/libopenmpi-dev.README.Debian?rev=80&op=file
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+OpenMPI for Debian - Developer Notes
+------------------------------------
+
+MPI Alternatives
+----------------
+
+The current OpenMPI version of Debian uses the Debian Alternatives system.
+Although OpenMPI might replace most of the existing MPI implementations in the
+future (see http://www.open-mpi.org/faq/?category=general#why), we decided to
+not affect any other MPI implementation already installed on your system.
+
+You can setup OpenMPI as default MPI implementation by selecting openmpi as
+the "mpi" alternative:
+
+  update-alternatives --config mpi
+
+Please note that there are some bugs in update-alternatives (namely #220044,
+#388313 and #392440) that cause trouble when you install several development
+packages of MPI implementations, i.e. LAM or MPICH.
+
+ -- Debian OpenMPI Team <pkg-openmpi-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org>, Tue, 11 Dec 2007 22:26:33 +0100