On Jun 16, 2010, at 19:31, Stephen Langer wrote:

> Therefore it's a serious mistake for a packaging system to assume that it's 
> ok to enable openmp in libraries.   A quick solution would be to provide both 
> openmp and no-openmp variants, which would make users choose between fast 
> stand-alone ImageMagick programs and libraries that can be linked by threaded 
> apps.

We don't need two variants; we only need one variant, "openmp", which the user 
can either enable or disable. It just remains a question as to whether the 
variant should be enabled by default or not. What I'm hearing is that we should 
disable it by default.

> A better solution might be for the openmp and non-openmp versions of the 
> libraries to have different names, so that both could be installed on the 
> same system.

Ugh. That sounds nasty.


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