[Pkg-openmpi-maintainers] Bug#493875: Bug#493875: libopenmpi-dev lacks /usr/include/openmpi

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

Alexander,

On 5 August 2008 at 17:25, Alexander Achenbach wrote:
| Package: libopenmpi-dev
| Version: 1.2.7~rc2-1
| Tags: lenny
| 
| There is no longer any
| 
|     /usr/include/openmpi
| 
| directory that can be used to access OpenMPI headers explicitly.
| 
| People here have been using
| 
|     #include <openmpi/...>

I quite like that idiom myself ...
 
| statements to make sure they are working with OpenMPI (and not
| with LAM or other alternatives). Not to have these files available
| in lenny is a regression.
| 
| Furthermore, since libopenmpi-dev now puts headers into
| 
|     /usr/lib/openmpi/include
| 
| they are not even in the standard headers search path, and
| 
|     #include "/usr/lib/openmpi/include/..."
| 
| is not really a nice way of making use of them.
| 
| What about adding a symlink
| 
|     /usr/include/openmpi => ../lib/openmpi/include
| 
| similar to the existing symlinks of shared libraries?

... so this is not a bad idea at all, and probably without side effects.  

We'll table this, as Manuel said.  Now, I am also swamped and out a
conference next week so sure who will get to this first.  

Cheers, Dirk
 
| Best regards,
| Alexander Achenbach
| 
| 
| 
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