FYI, debian libtool packages take care of this with this patch:
https://git.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libtool/tree/debian/patches/link_all_deplibs.patch Best, Bert On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 12:01 AM Christopher Samuel <csam...@swin.edu.au> wrote: > > Hi Brian, > > On 17/11/18 5:13 am, Barrett, Brian via devel wrote: > > > Unfortunately, I don’t have a good idea of what to do now. We already > > did the damage on the 3.x series. Our backwards compatibility testing > > (as lame as it is) just links libmpi, so it’s all good. But if anyone > > uses libtool, we’ll have a problem, because we install the .la files > > that allow libtool to see the dependency of libmpi on libopen-pal, and > > it gets too excited. > > > > We’ll need to talk about how we think about this change in the future. > > Thanks for that - personally I think it's a misfeature in libtool to add > these extra dependencies, it would be handy if there was a way to turn > it off - but that's not your problem. > > For us it just means that when we bring in a new Open-MPI we just need > to build new versions of our installed libraries and codes against it, > fortunately that's something that Easybuild makes (relatively) easy. > > Thanks for your time everyone - this is my last week at Swinburne before > I leave Australia to start at NERSC in December! > > All the best, > Chris > -- > Christopher Samuel OzGrav Senior Data Science Support > ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery > http://www.ozgrav.org/ http://twitter.com/ozgrav > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list > devel@lists.open-mpi.org > https://lists.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo/devel _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@lists.open-mpi.org https://lists.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
