[Pkg-openmpi-maintainers] [OMPI devel] Building with rpath disabled

[Manuel Prinz]

Am Montag, den 19.01.2009, 09:32 -0600 schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel:
> [ Sorry, crazy week. This was sitting in an unopened mail folder a
> days. Sorry. --Dirk ]

No worries!

> Ok. I may just be paranoid because I as a Debian Open MPI co-maintainer now
> twice had my own production use of Rmpi break because of linking issues.

I can understand that and of course don't want you to waste any extra
time on this; however, the issues are not related, AFAICS.

> Ok, but what I still don't understand is this: Why do we need a patch?  
> 
> We have Debian-only issue with a Debian-only solution (strip rpath) that
> works reliably.  Why change it?  And moreover, why push it upstream if it
> mostly if not entirely our use case?

Because other distros have similar policies, so Gentoo needs a
Gentoo-only solution, Fedora a Fedora-only solution, etc. This is not so
only at all, except there is a upstream solution. There could be with
almost no effort, so I thought it was a good idea to submit a patch that
works cross-distro. The benefit for us is that it simplifies
maintainance a little. Not *that* much, though, but hey...

> Right.  I'm ambivalent about this. I may have overreacted on Manuel's first
> email -- but that was, IIRC, not really discussed on our
> pkg-openmpi-maintainers list before Manuel sent it along.

Yes, my bad! Sorry for that! I skipped that because I thought that the
patch is trivial and does no harm. I have underestimated the impact it
caused. I'll promise to behave better next time! ;)

> But here's a radical suggestion: How about if we put this aside (either way)
> and try to focus on what may be more important.

Agreed. The patch is forwarded upstream. I think it's a nice feature to
have but will not enforce it to the Debian packaging. If upstream feels
like it is worth including, I'm happy about that; if not, we'll keep
things as is.

Best regards, and sorry for all the noise!
Manuel
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