Hi, Although static linking and rpath have their good use-cases, I’m pretty much glad that default eb/modules behaviour is reliance on LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
Let me suggest an example here. On Jun 26, 2015, at 6:22 PM, Todd Gamblin <tgamb...@llnl.gov> wrote: > the HPC world, I find that to be a pretty rare case. MPI doesn't even > have an ABI, so you're asking for trouble by trying to swap it in. You > need something like the hierarchical modules to do that -- where you swap > in/out entire trees. I am not sure I fully understand you, but I recall that since about v1.4 of openmpi there is documented backwards compatibility and you can freely swap forward versions: https://www.open-mpi.org/software/ompi/versions/ http://icl.cs.utk.edu/open-mpi/software/ompi/versions/ ## check this about 1.4.0, too! AFAIK, there is *no* other way to resolve a bug like this one, sanely, http://www.open-mpi.org/community/lists/users/2015/05/26913.php without having to recompile the world, if you do not rely upon LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Thanks to the latter, we can now do this without recompiling tens of builds: ``` module load HPCBIOS_LifeSciences ## includes buggy historic openmpi module swap OpenMPI ## if you have built 1.8.6 this works like a breeze ``` comments? F. -- echo "sysadmin know better bash than english" | sed s/min/mins/ \ | sed 's/better bash/bash better/' # signal detected in a CERN forum
