On 4 January 2008 at 12:24, Ondrej Certik wrote: | Package: libopenmpi-dev | Severity: normal | | --- Please enter the report below this line. --- | | Hi, | | In the last bug I reported: | | http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=457088 | | I was told, that the mpi.h is in /usr/include/openmpi | | However, in the clean environment, the libopenmpi-dev package fails to put mpi.h into | /usr/include/openmpi. | | How to reproduce the problem: | | $ sudo cowbuilder --update # or --c 500 unstable debian.certik.cz reate if you never used cowbuilder before | $ sudo cowbuilder --login | # apt-get install libopenmpi-dev | # ls /usr/include/openmpi | ls: /usr/include/openmpi: No such file or directory | | In the last bug, it was suggested, that this could be a problem in the broken | update-alternatives package. This could be the real problem, but unfortunately, | as a consequence, libopenmpi-dev isn't working. I am reporting this bug | as a normal bug, but I think the severity is serious, because it's a violation | of the FHS not to put the *.h files into /usr/include or any subdirectory. | | How about just using plain "ln -s"? Like this: | | ln -s /usr/lib/openmpi/include/ /usr/include/openmpi | | This should fix the problem, if update-alternatives doesn't work.
Are you sure? We then stop to cooperate nicely with LAM and MPICH2, and that is NOT the Debian way. Someone really needs to fix update-alternatives. Dirk -- Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

