On 04/01/10 at 13:25 -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > Source: openmpi,mpich2,lam,mpich > Severity: wishlist > X-Debbugs-CC: [email protected] > > Greetings, > > There are mpi alternative slaves for libmpi.so and libmpi++.so which are > convenient for C and C++ development. But a lot of MPI code is in > Fortran (77 or 90), for which there are no such symlinks. This requires > packages to use various methods to determine which MPI implementation is > installed by mpi-default-dev in order to figure out how to link to the > Fortran lib. > > I propose libmpif77.so and libmpif90.so slaves to the mpi alternatives > symlink which link to libfmpich.so, libmpi_f77.so, libmpi_f90.so etc.
Isn't it more appropriate to use mpif77/mpif90 (which are managed using alternatives) to compile, instead of specifying the library to link to manually? -- | Lucas Nussbaum | [email protected] http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: [email protected] GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

