Bug#653616: libmpich2-dev: Missing library linkage for libmpich.so on MIPS(el) and S390

[Pavan Balaji]

Hi Adam,

On 01/11/2012 12:26 PM, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> But since we made that switch that switch in early December, MPICH2 has
> been breaking a number of package builds now which used to work with
> LAM, and some of those breakages have been because of this issu.

In what way are they breaking?  We'd like to hear about such issues and 
get them fixed.

> Let me ask this way: is a reason you do not want libmpich.so to link
> with -lmpl?  libmpich uses libmpl's symbols, so one cannot use libmpich
> without libmpl, so I don't see the harm in making such a link.
>
> If I make a patch which links libmpich with libmpl, will you adopt it in
> the Debian mpich2 package?

I'm not quite sure what you mean by linking the two libraries.  Do you 
mean you'll embed the symbols from libmpl into libmpich?  Or did you 
mean inter-library dependencies?

http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual/html_node/Inter_002dlibrary-dependencies.html

Note that this is not portable, so there'll need to be a configure 
option to enable it for platforms that libtool supports it on.

Or did you mean something else?

Thanks,

  -- Pavan

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Pavan Balaji
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