[Pkg-openmpi-maintainers] Too-generic SONAME for OpenMPI?

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 10 January 2008 at 23:12, Nicholas Breen wrote:
| On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 12:47:22PM +0100, Manuel Prinz wrote:
| > > It's worth mentioning that, as of the most recent OpenMPI upload,
| > 
| > Is 1.2.4-5 the most recent version? Could you also try it with 1.2.5-1?
| > (Dirk uploaded it tonight.) There were some changes regarding the
| > SONAMES, though I bet that the problem will exists.
| 
| Indeed, same effect with 1.2.5-1.

Ack.
 
| > I'll also check against GROMACS since I know that package. Does the
| > error occur on i386/amd64 as well if one links to Fortran, or is this am
| > Alpha-only problem?
| 
| It's reproducible on i386 when linking with Fortran.  (In debian/rules,
| add "--enable-fortran" to COMMON_CONFIG_PARAMS, and remove the
| conditional around the "export F77" line.)  I don't have access to an
| amd64 machine, but I assume it'll give the same result.

This is something we may have to take upstream. As Manuel said, this is
somewhat tricky and technical territory. Your analysis looked reather good,
ok if we send it, or parts of it, upstream?

Dirk

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