No one has opposed the "1 big libmpi" proposal from a week ago, and I brought it up on the call again today to ensure that people had an opportunity to oppose the idea. No one did, so I plan to bring this into the trunk in the near future.
Two notes: 1. libopen-rte and libopen-pal will continue to be 0:0:0 for the rest of the v1.4 series. They will be versioned starting with v1.5.0. 2. Liandro's point is a good one that we need to document what was done, and perhaps also the workaround mentioned in case someone needs it (although I don't think that we should guarantee that it works; since we're opening the floodgates of breaking ABI, other ABI-changing things may come in that may subtly or explicitly break this workaround). On Feb 19, 2010, at 10:15 AM, Lisandro Dalcin wrote: > On 18 February 2010 10:53, Jeff Squyres <jsquy...@cisco.com> wrote: >> 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). >> > > And you could add a FAQ entry or document in some place how to do this > trick, just in case a sysadmin desperately needs the hack because of > pressure from some user with ABI issues. > > > -- > Lisandro Dalcin > --------------- > Centro Internacional de Métodos Computacionales en Ingeniería (CIMEC) > Instituto de Desarrollo Tecnológico para la Industria Química (INTEC) > Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) > PTLC - Güemes 3450, (3000) Santa Fe, Argentina > Tel/Fax: +54-(0)342-451.1594 > > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list > de...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/devel -- Jeff Squyres jsquy...@cisco.com For corporate legal information go to: http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/
