Hello Jeff and Kiril,
Thank you for your responses. Based on the information you both provided, I
was able to get buildrpm to make the OMPI RPM the way I wanted. I ended up
having to define _prefix , _mandir , and _infodir .
Additionally, I found I had to use --define "shell_scripts_basename mpivars"
because without that, when I tried to use mpi-selector, mpi-selector did not
find the installation since it specifically seems to look for the shell scripts
as mpivars.{sh,csh} rather than mpivars-1.3.3.{sh,csh} as the .spec file
builds. I think the .spec file should be changed to match what mpi-selector
expects.
Jeff, it might also be really useful to have a .spec build option to allow the
RPM to register itself as the system default. I hand-modified the .spec file
to do this. Please let me know if I should register a feature request
somewhere more formally.
Thanks again to you both, and sorry for taking so long to reply.
