I’m afraid that won’t solve the problem - the distro will still feel the need to release -two- versions of OMPI, one with PSM and one with PSM2. Ordinarily, I wouldn’t care - but this creates user confusion and reflects on us as a community.
> On Sep 2, 2015, at 6:50 PM, Gilles Gouaillardet <gil...@rist.or.jp> wrote: > > Ralph, > > what about automatically *not* building PSM2 if PSM is built and PSM2 is not > explicitly required ? > /* in order to be future proof, we could even do that only if we detect a > symbol conflict */ > we could abort if ompi is configure'd with both --with-psm and --with-psm2, > or simply do nothing > (the end user might know what he/she is doing, and there will be nothing to > do on the ompi side > when this gets fixed by the PSM folks) > > Cheers, > > Gilles > > On 9/3/2015 10:21 AM, Ralph Castain wrote: >> Hi folks >> >> I regret to say that 1.10.0 is hitting an issue with at least one upstream >> distro. Apparently, there is a symbol conflict between the PSM and PSM2 >> libraries that precludes building both of those MTLs at the same time. This >> is leading the distro to push for release of two OMPI 1.10.0 builds - one >> with PSM and the other with PSM2. >> >> IMO, this is a very undesirable situation. I agree with the distro that >> delaying release for some significant time as this would impact everyone >> else’s users. Therefore, assuming that the PSM team is unable to quickly >> resolve the problem in their libraries, my inclination is to release an >> immediate 1.10.1 with the PSM2 MTL removed. >> >> I’m soliciting input - any opinions? >> Ralph >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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/2015/09/17919.php > > _______________________________________________ > 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/2015/09/17920.php
