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

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 14 October 2008 at 22:35, Manuel Prinz wrote:
| Am Dienstag, den 14.10.2008, 13:53 -0500 schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel:
| > On 14 October 2008 at 12:23, Gary Hennigan wrote:
| > | 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?
| > 
| > According to FAQ 7 at http://www.open-mpi.org/faq/?category=building it
| > should be as simple as adding --enable-static to the configure call to these
| > build.  
| 
| IIRC, we did some time ago in the past. I'm not sure if we dropped them
| on purpose or accidentally but I think I remember we had a discussion
| about that. I just can't look it up at the moment.
| 
| Anyway, I remember that we have had --enable-static in debian/rules at
| some point in time, as described in the FAQ, maybe at the 1.1 series or
| maybe even later. I think it should not be too much of a big deal to
| reenable that. I personally never had much use for static libs since
| it's usually more of a burdon than help but if it helps our users, we
| should include them. It should not be too tricky.
| 
| > We then have to look into getting them properly into the package. 
| 
| Building them and installing the .[l]a files into the right places. That
| should be all.
| 
| > We are all a little short of spare time.  Could you possibly venture into the
| > first point and see if modifying debian/rules accordingly results in usable
| > static libraries ?
| 
| I'll try to have a look at the weekend, also addressing other packaging
| issues then. Sooner is not possible, so if someone steps in, I wouldn't
| be sad about it. ;)

You may still be the first who gets to it...  Also, 1.2.8 seems to have come
out today, which I assume you saw as well.

Dirk

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