On Feb 18, 2010, at 1:53 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > You could probably create fake empty libopen-rte and libopen-pal stub > libraries with 0:0:0 purely for the sake of allowing such an a.out to > still work (on systems with versioned sonames[1]). Since this doesn't > actually use any of the APIs from those libraries, there is no problem > here, and your 1.5 libmpi will pull in the 1:0:0 versions of the other > two libraries.
You get 10 "evil genius" points for a nifty-yet-icky solution. :-) I don't really want to continue carrying forward empty libraries just to maintain ABI. I'm (mostly) ok with breaking ABI at a major series change (i.e., 1.5.0). -- Jeff Squyres jsquy...@cisco.com For corporate legal information go to: http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/
