current status of mpi-default-dev for mpich/mpich2 arches (and scalapack in particular)

[Sébastien Villemot]

Hi Michael,

Le mardi 04 mars 2014 à 13:18 +0100, Michael Banck a écrit :

> cp2k FTBFS on s390x[1], because:
> 
> 1. The content of /usr/share/mpi-default-dev/debian_defaults on
> mpich-arches is currently "mpich" in unstable, TTBOMK.
> 
> 2. The scalapack (and blacs, I believe) libraries contain a
> "libscalapack-mpich2.so" symlink.
> 
> 3. In DebiChem, we have several packages which link to scalapack, and
> sofar we used something like this snippet to figure out which library to
> link in:
> include /usr/share/mpi-default-dev/debian_defaults
> export LIB_SCALAPACK=-lscalapack-$(ARCH_DEFAULT_MPI_IMPL)

Note that I have requested a binNMU on scalapack (#740620) which should
solve this specific issue. petsc is currently affected by the same
problem as cp2k.

I don't know if we need to think of a better solution to this problem.
As long as mpich does not get renamed again in the foreseeable future,
this may not be necessary.

Cheers,

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