Bug#563705: MPI: Add Fortran library symlink(s)

[Adam C Powell IV]

Source: openmpi,mpich2,lam,mpich
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-CC: debian-science at lists.debian.org

Greetings,

There are mpi alternative slaves for libmpi.so and libmpi++.so which are
convenient for C and C++ development.  But a lot of MPI code is in
Fortran (77 or 90), for which there are no such symlinks.  This requires
packages to use various methods to determine which MPI implementation is
installed by mpi-default-dev in order to figure out how to link to the
Fortran lib.

I propose libmpif77.so and libmpif90.so slaves to the mpi alternatives
symlink which link to libfmpich.so, libmpi_f77.so, libmpi_f90.so etc.

-Adam
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