Just about ready to update lam to 6.5.5. Any progress on mpe-source package?
Take care, Junichi Uekawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> immo vero scripsit > > > >I am thinking of making > > >"mpich-mpe-source" package, which contains a .tar.bz2 of > > >MPE source-tree, so that LAM can extract it at build-time, > > >to create MPE for LAM. > > > Sounds cool. Just two questions: > > > > First, suppose I have a package which can be built against mpich or lam, > > selected by an environment variable (defaults to mpich). Will the > > future lam3-dev be all I need to build this with MPE support in lam? > > Will I be able to just link -lmpe -lpmpich, or will those names change? > > Will they be shared libs, or just static like in mpich? > > I should hope so, but I have not yet looked into the details. > Whether they are static or shared libs is a question I have not > yet found an answer to. > > I haven't looked closely enough to it yet, but I am doubtful if it could > produce useful shared objects, but I could be wrong, and > please prove me wrong :P > > > > Second, why create a new package, instead of just including it in the > > lam source, or extracting it at bulid time using "apt get source mpich > > && mv mpich-ver.si.on/src/mpe ." somewhere in debian/rules (like atlas > > does for blas and lapack)? > > That is something which autobuilders do not seem to like. > Having a working deb-src lines is not mandatory for > pacages to be building. > Packages should be able to build if the Build-Depends are > satisfied. > > In fact, blas and lapack should be converted to this way, although > this way looks crude, or someone should put something like > Build-Source-Depends in to policy. > > > regards, > junichi > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- Camm Maguire [EMAIL PROTECTED] ========================================================================== "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." -- Baha'u'llah
