[Pkg-openmpi-maintainers] Bug#545919: Bug#545919: openmpi: Please add support for BLCR

[Alan Woodland]

2009/9/10 Manuel Prinz <manuel at debian.org>:
> Hi Alan!
>
> Am Donnerstag, den 10.09.2009, 00:33 +0100 schrieb Alan Woodland:
>> BLCR is now in main. It would be nice if openmpi were built using this
>> where it is available.
>>
>> I've attached a short patch adding options to configure, and build-depends
>
> Thanks a lot for the patch!
>
> I did think about adding it but BLCR was not packaged yet. I will add it
> in the next upload.
>
> Unfortunately, I do not have any possibility to test Open MPI with BLCR
> at the moment. Can you confirm it works as expected?

I checked it configured and built last night on my machine, but I've
not had a chance to test any functionality properly yet.

I can't see any tests in the source package that would cover this
right now, so I'll look about putting together a really simple set
that would verify BLCR checkpointing functionality with a simple MPI
application. (It won't pass on buildds though since I assume the
kernel module won't be loaded on any buildds)

Alan