* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 07:29:17AM CEST:
> * Paul H. Hargrove wrote on Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 05:37:23AM CEST:
> > libtool: install: (cd /usr/local/pkg/ompi-1.5rc5/lib && { ln -s -f
> > libmpi.so.0.0.2 libmpi.so.0 || { rm -f libmpi.so.0 && ln -s
> > libmpi.so.0.0.2 libmpi.so.0; }; })
> > Usage: ln [-f] [-s] f1
[...]
> > This is due to an incomprehensibly stupid "ln" that cares about the
> > order of the "-s" and "-f" options:
> >
> > $ rm -f b; touch a; ln -f -s a b
> > $ rm -f b; touch a; ln -s -f a b
> > Usage: ln [-f] [-s] f1
> > ln [-f] [-s] f1 f2
> > ln [-f] [-s] f1 ... fn d1
> >
> > $ which ln
> > /usr/ucb/ln
> >
> > $ uname -a
> > SunOS lem.lbl.gov 5.10 s10_69 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-5_10
>
> I'll fix that option order in libtool, but I don't see how it could have
> caused a failed install for you, because we explicitly do
> ln -s -f A B || { rm -f B && ln -s A B; }
>
> Please also note that this ln does not do the right thing with -f -s
> when the target file already exists:
Hmm, reordering would be ugly because of the $LN_S abstraction. Upon
reconsideration, I don't think it is that important to try to avoid some
inconsequential error message stemming from a setup which the default
GNU INSTALL file already advises not to use:
[...]
On Solaris, don't put `/usr/ucb' early in your `PATH'. This
directory contains several dysfunctional programs; working variants of
these programs are available in `/usr/bin'. So, if you need `/usr/ucb'
in your `PATH', put it _after_ `/usr/bin'.
[...]
Not sure if OpenMPI copies this text somewhere, but if it doesn't, maybe
it should?
You didn't confirm whether your installation actually failed though.
Did it succeed?
Thanks,
Ralf
