Bug#886644: openmpi: alternatives for libmpi*.so are not multiarch-safe

2018-01-09 Thread Alastair McKinstry
It appears that while the directories follow a M-A structure, libopenmpi-dev is not labelled Multi-Arch, so i'm regrading this as wishlist. It would still be good for the alternatives link to be M-A aware, so I will enable that. (and also in mpich). The syntax in lapack, etc. is

Bug#886644: openmpi: alternatives for libmpi*.so are not multiarch-safe

2018-01-09 Thread Wouter Verhelst
The same is true for libdrmaa.so.* (provided by slurm-drmaa1 and gridengine-drmaa-1.0). I think it makes sense to have a detailed discussion about these things...? On Mon, Jan 08, 2018 at 12:01:53PM +, Alastair McKinstry wrote: > Package: openmpi > Severity: important > > openmpi installs

Bug#886644: openmpi: alternatives for libmpi*.so are not multiarch-safe

2018-01-08 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Package: openmpi Severity: important openmpi installs links via alternatives for libmpi.so, as does mpich and lam. Unfortunately its implementation is not multi-arch safe: there can be multiple multiarch implementations of libmpi.so present, but only one libmpi.so in /etc/alternatives. The