On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 8:29 AM, Barrett, Brian W <bwba...@sandia.gov>wrote:
> >I should add the caveat that they are need when linking statically, but
> >not when using shared libraries.
>
> And therein lies the problem. We have a number of users who build Open
> MPI statically and even some who build both static and shared libraries in
> the same build. We've never been able to figure out a reasonable way to
> guess if we need to add -lhwloc or -ldl, so we add them. It's better to
> list them and have some redundant dependencies (since you have to have the
> library anyways) than to not list them and have odd link errors.
So pkg-config has the --static option for exactly this reason. Let's look
at Cairo as an example.
$ cat /usr/lib/pkgconfig/cairo.pc
prefix=/usr
exec_prefix=${prefix}
libdir=${exec_prefix}/lib
includedir=${prefix}/include
Name: cairo
Description: Multi-platform 2D graphics library
Version: 1.12.2
Requires.private: gobject-2.0 glib-2.0 pixman-1 >= 0.22.0
fontconfig >= 2.2.95 freetype2 >= 9.7.3 libpng xcb-shm xcb >= 1.6
xcb-render >= 1.6 xrender >= 0.6 x11
Libs: -L${libdir} -lcairo
Libs.private: -lz -lz
Cflags: -I${includedir}/cairo
$ pkg-config cairo --libs
-lcairo
$ pkg-config cairo --libs --static
-pthread -lcairo -lgobject-2.0 -lffi -lpixman-1 -lfontconfig -lexpat
-lfreetype -lbz2 -lpng15 -lz -lm -lxcb-shm -lxcb-render -lXrender
-lglib-2.0 -lrt -lpcre -lX11 -lpthread -lxcb -lXau -lXdmcp
$ ldd /usr/lib/libcairo.so
linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007fff741ff000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f135eac7000)
libpixman-1.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpixman-1.so.0 (0x00007f135e83f000)
libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1
(0x00007f135e608000)
libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0x00007f135e369000)
libpng15.so.15 => /usr/lib/libpng15.so.15 (0x00007f135e13c000)
libxcb-shm.so.0 => /usr/lib/libxcb-shm.so.0 (0x00007f135df39000)
libxcb-render.so.0 => /usr/lib/libxcb-render.so.0
(0x00007f135dd30000)
libxcb.so.1 => /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1 (0x00007f135db12000)
libXrender.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXrender.so.1 (0x00007f135d906000)
libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x00007f135d5cc000)
libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x00007f135d3b6000)
librt.so.1 => /lib/librt.so.1 (0x00007f135d1ad000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x00007f135ceb8000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007f135cb17000)
/lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f135f012000)
libbz2.so.1.0 => /usr/lib/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007f135c906000)
libexpat.so.1 => /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1 (0x00007f135c6dc000)
libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXau.so.6 (0x00007f135c4d8000)
libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6 (0x00007f135c2d1000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f135c0cd000)
Now I'm not saying that Open MPI should commit to pkg-config instead of
wrapper compilers, but the concept of linking differently for static versus
shared libraries is something that should be observed.
(Over-linking is an ongoing problem with HPC-oriented packages. We are
probably all guilty of it, but tools like pkg-config don't handle multiple
configurations well and I don't know of a similar system that manages both
static/shared and multi-configuration well.)
