Bug#563705: [Pkg-scicomp-devel] Bug#563705: MPI: Add Fortran library symlink(s)

[Adam C Powell IV]

On Mon, 2010-01-04 at 20:21 +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> On 04/01/10 at 13:25 -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Isn't it more appropriate to use mpif77/mpif90 (which are managed using
> alternatives) to compile, instead of specifying the library to link to
> manually?

This should work for Fortran (and probably C) objects.  But if they are
mixed Fortran/C++/C, will all mpif77/mpif90 implementations inspect the
object files and properly link to all of the necessary language
libraries?  I'm pretty sure they don't, which is why many packages have
MPI_LIBS make variables to include them.

If you're sure that all mpif77/mpiCC/etc. implementations do this right,
then feel free to close this bug.

-Adam
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