[Pkg-openmpi-maintainers] Bug#455886: Bug#455886: Bug#455886: Bug#455886: mpicc seems missing on buildbots

[Manuel Prinz]

Am Mittwoch, den 12.12.2007, 09:26 -0600 schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel:
> | However, openmi is providing an cxx alternative even when C++ compiler
> | is not installed. Is it the right way ?
>  
> ... even though one could argue that openmpi, if it provides wrappers for gcc
> and g++, could also depend on them -- though it seems somewhat circular. 
> 
> On the other hand, Debian has the 'build-essential' package which provides
> make, gcc, g++ --- maybe we (both!!) should just Depends on that.  But I seem
> to recall that this was implied anyway.  Maybe this changed recently. Does
> anybody know?

pbuilder pulls in build-essential, I can't say for the buildds. We would
also need to depend on at least a Fortran compiler, since openmpi
installs wrappers for this one too... I'm unsure whether it should be a
Depends or Recommends, I could argue for or against either of them. It
would pull in some stuff very few people need (like a Fotran compiler)
but that's of course better than leaving a maintainer with a -dev
package that's "useless" in some or all cases because you don't have the
tools you need.

Best regards
Manuel
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