[Pkg-openmpi-maintainers] Bug#602132: Bug#602132: openmpi-bin: Please enable threading support

[Lucas Nussbaum]

On 01/11/10 at 22:51 +0100, Manuel Prinz wrote:
> Hi Lucas,
> 
> thanks for your report!
> 
> On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 10:18:14PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> > In debian/rules, there's a mention that threading support is disabled
> > because it is broken according to #435581. That bug is really old, and
> > I'm wondering whether we could revisit that decision now (maybe
> > upstream has an opinion on this?).
> 
> Though old, this still holds for the 1.4 series of Open MPI. I'm not
> exactly sure whether it's solved in the development branch (1.5 series).
> I will investigate that.

Is the root cause for disabling it that it crashes on kFreeBSD, or that
is it deemed experimental by upstream ? If it only crashes on kFreeBSD,
I think that it would be reasonable to disable it only there. (but in
the other case, it's of course perfectly reasonable to keep it
disabled).

> There are several changes in 1.5 and I will have to rework the packaging
> anyway, so this will take some time to fix. The little Debian time I have
> ATM goes into working on Squeeze, so please don't expect anything soonish.
> Hope that's OK with you.
> 
> I'll also have to get back to you with regards to MPICH2. But that's a
> different issue, just to "warn" you that you'll hear from me again within
> the next few days! ;)

Feel welcomed ;)

- Lucas