On 14 October 2008 at 22:35, Manuel Prinz wrote: | Am Dienstag, den 14.10.2008, 13:53 -0500 schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel: | > On 14 October 2008 at 12:23, Gary Hennigan wrote: | > | A lot of Debian lib*-dev packages also include static libraries. When | > | we distribute our application we'll often include statically linked | > | binaries so that users don't have to try and go through a complicated | > | list of prerequisites in order to build on their system. Unfortunately | > | I can't do that with my MPI applications because there aren't any | > | static libraries avaialble in the Debian OpenMPI packages. Any chance | > | you could start distributing static versions of the OpenMPI libraries? | > | > According to FAQ 7 at http://www.open-mpi.org/faq/?category=building it | > should be as simple as adding --enable-static to the configure call to these | > build. | | IIRC, we did some time ago in the past. I'm not sure if we dropped them | on purpose or accidentally but I think I remember we had a discussion | about that. I just can't look it up at the moment. | | Anyway, I remember that we have had --enable-static in debian/rules at | some point in time, as described in the FAQ, maybe at the 1.1 series or | maybe even later. I think it should not be too much of a big deal to | reenable that. I personally never had much use for static libs since | it's usually more of a burdon than help but if it helps our users, we | should include them. It should not be too tricky. | | > We then have to look into getting them properly into the package. | | Building them and installing the .[l]a files into the right places. That | should be all. | | > We are all a little short of spare time. Could you possibly venture into the | > first point and see if modifying debian/rules accordingly results in usable | > static libraries ? | | I'll try to have a look at the weekend, also addressing other packaging | issues then. Sooner is not possible, so if someone steps in, I wouldn't | be sad about it. ;)
You may still be the first who gets to it... Also, 1.2.8 seems to have come out today, which I assume you saw as well. 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]