[Debichem-devel] Bug#526266: gromacs-openmpi: Incorrect dependency on LAM/MPI

[Manuel Prinz]

Package: gromacs-openmpi
Version: 4.0.4-1
Severity: important
Tags: patch

Hi Nicholas,

I noticed that the gromacs-openmpi package in sid has a wrong dependancy on
LAM/MPI which can cause unexpected behaviour. The problem seems to be that
Open MPI links to /usr/lib/libmpi.so which is a symlink to the LAM/MPI version
(handled via update-alternatives). The attached patch fixes this by providing
a direct path to the Open MPI libs to the linker which fixes the problem. You
may want to do a similar thing for the other implementations. I did not test
this since I use Open MPI exclusively. It works for Open MPI, though.

Best regards
Manuel

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (200, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gromacs-openmpi depends on:
ii  base-files                   5lenny2     Debian base system miscellaneous f
pn  lam4c2                       <none>      (no description available)
ii  libc6                        2.7-18      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libfftw3-3                   3.1.2-3.1   library for computing Fast Fourier
ii  libopenmpi1                  1.2.7~rc2-2 high performance message passing l
ii  openmpi-bin                  1.2.7~rc2-2 high performance message passing l

Versions of packages gromacs-openmpi recommends:
ii  gromacs                       4.0.4-1    Molecular dynamics simulator, with

Versions of packages gromacs-openmpi suggests:
pn  gromacs-doc                   <none>     (no description available)
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