It is a vestige from a epoch where our shared library symbols were loaded in the RTLD_GLOBAL mode. I support your proposal to scrap it out.
George. On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 1:41 PM, Nathan Hjelm <hje...@lanl.gov> wrote: > > I am working on rewriting some of the MCA component open code to delay > dlclose until opal_util_finalize () and I ran into something > interesting. Open MPI supports component dependency files ending in > .ompi_info. These files can be used to describe dependencies between mca > components. This feature seems to be a break in the MCA abstration. I > could, for example, make mca_btl_vader.so "depend" on components in > ompi (like mca_osc_pt2pt.so). > > What is the history of the .ompi_info dependency file format? Can we > remove support for it? It would greatly simplify the code in > mca_base_component_find.c. > > -Nathan > > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list > de...@open-mpi.org > Subscription: http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/devel > Link to this post: > http://www.open-mpi.org/community/lists/devel/2015/04/17191.php >
