[Pkg-openmpi-maintainers] Bug#531522: mpicc segfaults when called by fakeroot

[Steve M. Robbins]

Hi Clint,

On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 02:08:45AM +0000, Clint Adams wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 08:59:29PM -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
> > I uploaded this change to Debian's openmpi packages yesterday, patch below.
> > Jeff: will you commit this upstream?
> > 
> > Fakeroot maintainer: will you set OMPI_MCA_disable_memory_allocator to 1
> > in the fakeroot environment?
> 
> Perhaps it would be better if you had debian/rules check to see if
> $FAKEROOTKEY is set and then export
> OMPI_MCA_disable_memory_allocator in that case.

Perhaps, though I don't see any benefit to this approach rather than
always setting the variable.  Can you elaborate?

I'm building a version of boost with OMPI_MCA_disable_memory_allocator=1
set in debian/rules.  There's at least one more FTBFS bug that would
need to do this, which is a very nonobvious workaround to a build
failure.  Wouldn't it be better to have fakeroot set the variable 
and fix the problem in one place?

Regards,
-Steve
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