[Pkg-openmpi-maintainers] Bug#502232: libopenmpi-dev: No static libraries in the package

[Gary Hennigan]

Package: libopenmpi-dev
Version: 1.2.7~rc2-2
Severity: wishlist

A lot of Debian lib*-dev packages also include static libraries. When
we distribute our application we'll often include statically linked
binaries so that users don't have to try and go through a complicated
list of prerequisites in order to build on their system. Unfortunately
I can't do that with my MPI applications because there aren't any
static libraries avaialble in the Debian OpenMPI packages. Any chance
you could start distributing static versions of the OpenMPI libraries?

Thanks,
Gary

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26.03oct08 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages libopenmpi-dev depends on:
ii  libc6                        2.7-14      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libopenmpi1                  1.2.7~rc2-2 high performance message passing l
ii  openmpi-common               1.2.7~rc2-2 high performance message passing l

libopenmpi-dev recommends no packages.

libopenmpi-dev suggests no packages.

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