Hi all,
I would like to revive this old thread, as we've been bitten by this
also when moving from 14.11 to 15.08.
On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 4:38 AM, Bjørn-Helge Mevik <[email protected]> wrote:
> We have verified that we can compile openmpi (1.8.6) against slurm
> 14.03.7 (with the .la files removed), and then upgrade slurm to 15.08.0
> without having to recompile openmpi.
>
> My understanding of linking and libraries is not very thorough,
> unfortunately, but according to
>
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/mingw/2012-January/004421.html
>
> the .la files are only needed in order to link against static libraries,
> and since Slurm doesn't provide any static libraries, I guess it would
> be safe for the slurm-devel rpm not to include these files.
I think the link above describes the situation pretty well. Could we
please remove the .la files from the slurm-devel RPM if they don't
serve any specific purpose?
The attached patch to slurm.spec worked for me.
Cheers,
--
Kilian
--- slurm.spec.orig 2016-01-20 13:56:14.000000000 -0800
+++ slurm.spec 2016-02-04 13:21:05.636581599 -0800
@@ -507,14 +507,6 @@
install -D -m755 contribs/sgather/sgather ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}%{_bindir}/sgather
install -D -m755 contribs/sjstat ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}%{_bindir}/sjstat
-# Correct some file permissions
-test -f $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_libdir}/libpmi.la &&
- chmod 644 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_libdir}/libpmi.la
-test -f $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_libdir}/libslurm.la &&
- chmod 644 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_libdir}/libslurm.la
-test -f $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_libdir}/libslurmdb.la &&
- chmod 644 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_libdir}/libslurmdb.la
-
# Delete unpackaged files:
test -s $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_perldir}/auto/Slurm/Slurm.bs ||
rm -f $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_perldir}/auto/Slurm/Slurm.bs
@@ -663,10 +655,6 @@
LIST=./devel.files
touch $LIST
-test -f $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_libdir}/libpmi.la &&
- echo %{_libdir}/libpmi.la >> $LIST
-test -f $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_libdir}/libpmi2.la &&
- echo %{_libdir}/libpmi2.la >> $LIST
LIST=./percs.files
touch $LIST
@@ -843,8 +831,6 @@
%dir %attr(0755,root,root)
%dir %{_prefix}/include/slurm
%{_prefix}/include/slurm/*
-%{_libdir}/libslurm.la
-%{_libdir}/libslurmdb.la
%{_mandir}/man3/slurm_*
%dir %{_libdir}/pkgconfig
%{_libdir}/pkgconfig/slurm.pc
