Bug#573187: transition: mpi-defaults

2012-03-28 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 21:34:45 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 00:35:12 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: Reverse-dependencies of lam left in testing: - apbs; binNMUs scheduled mips failed, the rest are ok. Filed a bug for the mips FTBFS (#663894) Maintainer

Bug#573187: transition: mpi-defaults

2012-03-14 Thread Julien Cristau
On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 00:35:12 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: Reverse-dependencies of lam left in testing: - apbs; binNMUs scheduled mips failed, the rest are ok. Filed a bug for the mips FTBFS (#663894) - cctools; fixed in unstable, but FTBFS (#661658) Still unfixed. -

Bug#573187: transition: mpi-defaults

2012-03-01 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 01:18:06 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: The new mpi-defaults was uploaded to sid in December, here's the current state. Reverse-dependencies of lam left in testing: - apbs; binNMUs scheduled mips failed, the rest are ok. - cctools; fixed in unstable, but FTBFS

Bug#573187: transition: mpi-defaults

2012-02-28 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 19:06:06 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: Hi, On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 17:52 +0100, Manuel Prinz wrote: The current plan is to EOL MPICH and LAM by removing all reverse dependencies on those packages. One big step in this direction would be via mpi-defaults. The

Bug#573187: transition: mpi-defaults

2010-06-02 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Hi, On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 17:52 +0100, Manuel Prinz wrote: The current plan is to EOL MPICH and LAM by removing all reverse dependencies on those packages. One big step in this direction would be via mpi-defaults. The current version depends on LAM/MPI for arches where Open MPI is not

Bug#573187: transition: mpi-defaults

2010-04-09 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 08/04/10 at 18:22 -0500, Pavan Balaji wrote: Manuel Prinz wrote: The problem is that a lot of build systems of MPI-using software want the headers in $prefix/include and the libs in $prefix/lib, and on can often only use $prefix to point to the location of MPI-relevant files. The Debian

Bug#573187: transition: mpi-defaults

2010-04-09 Thread Manuel Prinz
Am Donnerstag, den 08.04.2010, 18:22 -0500 schrieb Pavan Balaji: If we choose to do the first approach, what exactly needs to change in the mpich2 source? It looks like this is more of a packaging issue for Debian? As Lucas already said, we're already happy with what MPICH2 provides. But

Bug#573187: transition: mpi-defaults

2010-04-09 Thread Pavan Balaji
Manuel Prinz wrote: Am Donnerstag, den 08.04.2010, 18:22 -0500 schrieb Pavan Balaji: We were having a discussion about a common ABI in the context of MPI-3. But that working group fizzled out. I'll check on what exactly happened with it in the next meeting (in May). Even if the MPI standard

Bug#573187: transition: mpi-defaults

2010-04-08 Thread Pavan Balaji
Manuel Prinz wrote: The problem is that a lot of build systems of MPI-using software want the headers in $prefix/include and the libs in $prefix/lib, and on can often only use $prefix to point to the location of MPI-relevant files. The Debian package of MPICH2 uses $prefix/lib and

Bug#573187: transition: mpi-defaults

2010-04-07 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 06/04/10 at 21:01 -0500, Pavan Balaji wrote: Sorry, never mind my previous email. Lucas Nussbaum wrote: We would like to switch to using mpich2 on the arches where openmpi is not supported, but some packages fail to build from source when using mpich2. It seems that for some of them,

Bug#573187: transition: mpi-defaults

2010-04-07 Thread Pavan Balaji
Lucas Nussbaum wrote: On 06/04/10 at 21:01 -0500, Pavan Balaji wrote: By default, mpi.h should installed in $prefix/include, which seems to be what you need (prefix = /usr/lib/mpich2). So, unless you give an --includedir option to configure, this should work the way you expect it to. Maybe I'm

Bug#573187: transition: mpi-defaults

2010-04-07 Thread Manuel Prinz
Am Mittwoch, den 07.04.2010, 13:12 -0500 schrieb Pavan Balaji: Ok, this is the part I didn't understand fully. Is MPICH2's build failing when includedir is specified as a different location? (I just tried that on my machine and it seems to work correctly for me.) Or did you mean some other

Bug#573187: transition: mpi-defaults

2010-04-06 Thread Manuel Prinz
Am Montag, den 05.04.2010, 17:22 +0200 schrieb Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt: So, did you spend this time on doing fixes already? :-) Yes, I indeed did. Not as much as I'd liked too, but nevertheless. It would be great to see at least a few patches for the breaking packages before the new defaults

Bug#573187: transition: mpi-defaults

2010-04-06 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi Pavan, Could you take a look at http://bugs.debian.org/573187 and at the message below? We would like to switch to using mpich2 on the arches where openmpi is not supported, but some packages fail to build from source when using mpich2. It seems that for some of them, it is caused by build

Bug#573187: transition: mpi-defaults

2010-04-06 Thread Pavan Balaji
Hi Lucas, I'm a little lost trying to find the platform where the build is failing. Can you point me to the exact output? Thanks, -- Pavan Lucas Nussbaum wrote: Hi Pavan, Could you take a look at http://bugs.debian.org/573187 and at the message below? We would like to switch to using

Bug#573187: transition: mpi-defaults

2010-04-06 Thread Pavan Balaji
Sorry, never mind my previous email. Lucas Nussbaum wrote: We would like to switch to using mpich2 on the arches where openmpi is not supported, but some packages fail to build from source when using mpich2. It seems that for some of them, it is caused by build systems expecting to find mpi.h

Bug#573187: transition: mpi-defaults

2010-04-05 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Manuel Prinz man...@debian.org writes: Am Dienstag, den 23.03.2010, 19:30 +0100 schrieb Lucas Nussbaum: Fixing that my providing symlinks might cause subtle failures later, when the package is actually used and thinks that the libs are in some place while they aren't. I do not see why it

Bug#573187: transition: mpi-defaults

2010-03-23 Thread Manuel Prinz
Am Samstag, den 20.03.2010, 14:01 +0100 schrieb Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt: Manuel Prinz man...@debian.org writes: This would enable to fix these in a timely fashion. I could start doing that tomorrow night. How does that sound to you? Sounds good. Sorry for my delayed answer :-/ No problem,

Bug#573187: transition: mpi-defaults

2010-03-23 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 23/03/10 at 19:11 +0100, Manuel Prinz wrote: Am Samstag, den 20.03.2010, 14:01 +0100 schrieb Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt: Manuel Prinz man...@debian.org writes: This would enable to fix these in a timely fashion. I could start doing that tomorrow night. How does that sound to you?

Bug#573187: transition: mpi-defaults

2010-03-23 Thread Manuel Prinz
Am Dienstag, den 23.03.2010, 19:30 +0100 schrieb Lucas Nussbaum: Given the low number of packages that FTBFS with mpich2 as mpi-default, I would say that this could be fixed in the failing packages' build system, no? Sure. It might need some severe patching, though. Fixing that my providing

Bug#573187: transition: mpi-defaults

2010-03-20 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Manuel Prinz man...@debian.org writes: Am Mittwoch, den 17.03.2010, 13:24 +0100 schrieb Lucas Nussbaum: On 17/03/10 at 09:49 +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: I would propose that all (or at least) most of these bugs should be fixed before we actually do the switch in unstable. Manuel, does

Bug#573187: transition: mpi-defaults

2010-03-17 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi, As asked during yesterday's release team meeting, I did a partial archive rebuild on amd64 with a modified mpi-defaults pointing to mpich2 instead of openmpi. The goal is to detect issues that will show up when the slower arches are switched to mpich2. (I know the plan is not to switch amd64

Bug#573187: transition: mpi-defaults

2010-03-17 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Lucas Nussbaum lu...@lucas-nussbaum.net writes: [test builds for mpi-default switch to mpich2] The following 11 packages failed to build: apbs looks for mpi.h in the wrong place blacs-mpi missing target 'build-mpich2' in debian/rules gdcm ? igstk No rule to make target

Bug#573187: transition: mpi-defaults

2010-03-17 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 17/03/10 at 09:49 +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: Lucas Nussbaum lu...@lucas-nussbaum.net writes: [test builds for mpi-default switch to mpich2] The following 11 packages failed to build: apbs looks for mpi.h in the wrong place blacs-mpi missing target 'build-mpich2' in

Bug#573187: transition: mpi-defaults

2010-03-17 Thread Manuel Prinz
Am Mittwoch, den 17.03.2010, 13:24 +0100 schrieb Lucas Nussbaum: On 17/03/10 at 09:49 +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: Lucas Nussbaum lu...@lucas-nussbaum.net writes: So, it looks like it is mostly build system bugs, and it should not be too hard to fix. Good to know, thanks for

Bug#573187: transition: mpi-defaults

2010-03-09 Thread Manuel Prinz
Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian@packages.debian.org Usertags: transition Dear release team, as requested by Marc Brockschmidt in 87ocj81kt4@solon.marcbrockschmidt.de, I file this bug for the mpi-defaults transition. As discussed on the Debian Science