[Pkg-openmpi-maintainers] Bug#459070: Bug#459070: /usr/include/openmpi is missing (mpi.h isn't in /usr/include/**)

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 4 January 2008 at 12:24, Ondrej Certik wrote:
| Package: libopenmpi-dev
| Severity: normal
| 
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| 
| Hi, 
| 
| In the last bug I reported:
| 
| http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=457088
| 
| I was told, that the mpi.h is in /usr/include/openmpi
| 
| However, in the clean environment, the libopenmpi-dev package fails to put mpi.h into
| /usr/include/openmpi.
| 
| How to reproduce the problem:
| 
| $ sudo cowbuilder --update     # or --c 500 unstable        debian.certik.cz reate if you never used cowbuilder before
| $ sudo cowbuilder --login
| # apt-get install libopenmpi-dev
| # ls /usr/include/openmpi
| ls: /usr/include/openmpi: No such file or directory
| 
| In the last bug, it was suggested, that this could be a problem in the broken
| update-alternatives package. This could be the real problem, but unfortunately,
| as a consequence, libopenmpi-dev isn't working. I am reporting this bug
| as a normal bug, but I think the severity is serious, because it's a violation
| of the FHS not to put the *.h files into /usr/include or any subdirectory.
| 
| How about just using plain "ln -s"? Like this:
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| ln -s /usr/lib/openmpi/include/ /usr/include/openmpi
| 
| This should fix the problem, if update-alternatives doesn't work.

Are you sure? We then stop to cooperate nicely with LAM and MPICH2, and that
is NOT the Debian way.

Someone really needs to fix update-alternatives. 

Dirk

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