Thanks Bas for the explanations. > #708638.
Aha, I didn't know about this report. I've just subscribed and will continue to offer my help with this. Cheers, Nico On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 11:23 PM Sebastiaan Couwenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > On 05-11-15 22:50, Nico Schlömer wrote: > > Ah yes, it will certainly be some work. I was under the impression that > > HDF5 has already paved the way for us, but perhaps that judgement is a > > little optimistic. I wish there was some sort of generic framework for > > dealing with this since I have a couple of other projects for which it > > would make sense to have them in serial and parallel. > > The hdf5 package patches the autotools buildsystem to include the flavor > (serial|openmpi|mpich2) in the library names, and libtool takes care of > the rest. We need to reimplement that for the netcdf CMake build system. > I'm tempted to not append the flavor to the non-mpi library, to not need > patches for all reverse dependencies that don't use the mpi variant. > > The dh overrides will include additional dh_auto_* calls for the mpi > flavors, using their own build directories and configure options. > > > Anyhow. Although I'm not firm enough in patching the build system, I'd be > > more than happy to help out getting netcdf ready for parallel. > > Your help testing is much appreciated, I have no need for MPI netcdf > myself so I'm only going to work on it to fix #708638. It would be nice > to have the MPI variants available by the time 4.4.0 final is released, > but I'm not making any promises. > > Kind Regards, > > Bas > > -- > GPG Key ID: 4096R/6750F10AE88D4AF1 > Fingerprint: 8182 DE41 7056 408D 6146 50D1 6750 F10A E88D 4AF1 >
