Re: building package with different libs

2008-11-19 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 08:05:28AM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: Manuel, you mentioned getting OpenMPI to work on all arches as your top priority; what's your expected timeframe? I know, when it's ready or real soon now. But if this will happen in plenty of time for packages to transition

Re: building package with different libs

2008-11-19 Thread Manuel Prinz
Am Mittwoch, den 19.11.2008, 04:32 -0600 schrieb Steve M. Robbins: If I may, I'd like to suggest mpi-defaults go ahead despite good intentions that OpenMPI be ready before squeeze. That way, maintainers of MPI-using packages (e.g. me) don't have to deal with the mess from today until the

Re: building package with different libs

2008-11-18 Thread Manuel Prinz
[ Sorry for the long email! I wanted to express my view and as a non-native speaker, it's not always easy to be precise. Hope you don't mind. ] Am Dienstag, den 18.11.2008, 08:05 -0500 schrieb Adam C Powell IV: On Sat, 2008-11-15 at 21:04 -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: On 14 November 2008 at

Re: building package with different libs

2008-11-18 Thread Adam C Powell IV
On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 23:06 +0100, Manuel Prinz wrote: [ Sorry for the long email! I wanted to express my view and as a non-native speaker, it's not always easy to be precise. Hope you don't mind. ] No problem at all! Am Dienstag, den 18.11.2008, 08:05 -0500 schrieb Adam C Powell IV: On

Re: [Pkg-openmpi-maintainers] building package with different libs

2008-11-18 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 18 November 2008 at 23:03, Adam C Powell IV wrote: | All things considered, OpenMPI has my vote as the most advanced | implementation right now... Thanks for that. Given that we need to order these (presented alphabetically) LAM ? MPICH ? Open MPI I suggest the following: i) LAM

Re: [Pkg-openmpi-maintainers] building package with different libs

2008-11-18 Thread Ross Boylan
On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 22:25 -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: On 18 November 2008 at 23:03, Adam C Powell IV wrote: | All things considered, OpenMPI has my vote as the most advanced | implementation right now... Thanks for that. Given that we need to order these (presented alphabetically)

Re: building package with different libs

2008-11-15 Thread Adam C Powell IV
On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 23:12 -0600, Steve M. Robbins wrote: Howdy, On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 07:48:19PM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote: [Copying -beowulf as there's likely some interest there as well.] On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 15:21 +0100, Manuel Prinz wrote: When building against

Re: building package with different libs

2008-11-15 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 14 November 2008 at 23:12, Steve M. Robbins wrote: | Howdy, | | | On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 07:48:19PM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote: | [Copying -beowulf as there's likely some interest there as well.] | | On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 15:21 +0100, Manuel Prinz wrote: | | When building against

Re: building package with different libs

2008-11-14 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Howdy, On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 07:48:19PM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote: [Copying -beowulf as there's likely some interest there as well.] On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 15:21 +0100, Manuel Prinz wrote: When building against OpenMPI, there are a few choices: 1. Do not build packages using

MPI in Debian (Was: Re: building package with different libs)

2008-10-31 Thread Manuel Prinz
On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 15:21 +0100, Manuel Prinz wrote: ACK to that. The problem will probably not go away anytime soon. A new standard seems to be on the way, and I really hope things improve with it. Am Donnerstag, den 30.10.2008, 19:48 -0400 schrieb Adam C Powell IV: Wow, that would be

building package with different libs

2008-10-21 Thread Thorsten Alteholz
Hi, I need some advice on building packages with different libs. I already sent this to debian-mentors but unfortunately got no answer. As this is about a scientific package, maybe there has been somebody with the same problem. Assuming that I have software S which needs to be linked against

Re: building package with different libs

2008-10-21 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 21 Oct 2008, Thorsten Alteholz wrote: To make this a bit more realistic: It is about package meep-mpi. Currently it uses libhdf5-serial and there is a requet to build it with libhdf5-mpich and libhdf5-openmpi. So my Build-Depends: in the source section needs to contain either