[Pkg-openmpi-maintainers] Bug#494046: Bug#494046: openmpi-bin: Doesn't work in a chroot environment

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 6 August 2008 at 21:16, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
| On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 18:13 -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| > On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 06:08:57PM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
| > > Package: openmpi-bin
| > > Version: 1.2.7~rc2-1
| > > 
| > > Greetings,
| > > 
| > > As reported upstream [1], openmpi binaries and mpirun don't work in a
| > > chroot environment, as mpich does.
| > > 
| > >  [1] http://www.open-mpi.org/community/lists/users/2008/07/6245.php
| > 
| > As you know, I'm also on that list --- but I didn't notice any
| > follow-up or conclusion.  Is there anything actionable here?
| 
| Yeah, I was disappointed too.  The "actionable" is pretty much debugging
| and fixing.
| 
| Fortunately, I will have some time -- and a client mandate -- to do some
| of this 2-3 weeks from now.

Ack. The upstream guys are actually rather good and helpful. But I guess we
need a debugging lead first, eg whether it's just 'our' chroots (maybe once
again implying compiler/linker configs) or whether it is generic.

Cheers, Dirk

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