Hello Jeff, * Jeff Squyres wrote on Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 08:19:25PM CET: > The issue is that if the user has to specify -static to their linker, > they *also* have to specify --ompi:static, or Bad Things will happen. > Or, if they don't specify -static but *only* specify --ompi:static, > Bad Things will happen. In short: it seems like adding yet another > wrapper-compiler-specific flag to the MPI ecosystem will cause > confusion, fear, and possibly the death of some cats.
Do you care for omitting -lopen-pal and -lorte only for capable Linux systems? With new-enough binutils, you should be able to use -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,--no-as-needed around these two libs. I'm not entirely sure I understand your argumentation for why libmpi from 1.5.x has to be binary incompatible, but I haven't fully thought through this yet. Cheers, Ralf
