On 8 January 2009 at 16:45, Manuel Prinz wrote: | Hi, | | attached you'll find a (trivial) patch against the latest svn trunk | (r20227) that adds a --disable-rpath to configure, so libraries can be | build with rpath disabled. The reason for adding this feature that was | that rpath is often problematic and it is removed in Debian anyway. (We | currently delete rpath entries after building which is a little ugly.)
"In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practive, they are not." It is true that Debian 'at large' has a policy to not use rpath. This is due to the fact that as a distro, we can control ld.so.conf etc. That said, I as a developer often do not nuke rpath because certain systems are simply built to use it. With Open MPi, and particularly Rmpi, I have had nasty bugs given that symbols are split over several libraries. To be honest, that was worse with Ubuntu because they globally tell the linker to strip-unneeded (or something like that) as a default which killed till I enforced LD_FLAGS="" to override it for the package. Long story short, I'd suggest a short moratorium here til we at Debian have figured that all ducks are indeed in a row. Right now I fear they may not be. Testing standalone C programs against libmpi is not enough of a test. Manuel and I will toy with this off-line and report back. Dirk PS Apologies also for the 'ftbfs' lingo the other day which came from a Debian-internal list and a post that was not initially meant for wider distribution. | The patch simply adds a call to the macro AC_LIB_RPATH in configure.ac | and installs "config.rpath" from gettext which seems to be the preferred | way of distributing the m4 macros needed for that. The license should | not be an issue, as far as I can say. | | I tested it with the current trunk and it worked fine for me. It would | be great if you could consider including it since it makes Debian | maintainance of Open MPI a little easier and I think other distributions | (and some users) may benefit from stripping rpath as well. | | Thanks in advance! | | Best regards | Manuel | -- | Pkg-openmpi-maintainers mailing list | pkg-openmpi-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org | http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-openmpi-maintainers -- Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions.
