[Debichem-devel] OpenMM package for Debian/Ubuntu

[Peter Eastman]

We already have build options to omit particular plugins.  But I don't see any value in distributing a pre-built version that omits the CUDA plugins.  It would just mislead users into thinking they had a "real" OpenMM install, when in fact they had a crippled version, and then they would wonder why their performance was so bad.

Peter


On Jan 23, 2014, at 10:26 AM, Andreas Tille <andreas at an3as.eu> wrote:

> Hi Peter,
> 
> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 09:59:49AM -0800, Peter Eastman wrote:
>> Hi Andreas,
>> 
>>> The first and probably major problem is that the build depends on packages in non-free: nvidia-cuda-toolkit.
>> 
>> All of the code that relies on CUDA is in plugins that get loaded dynamically at runtime.  So CUDA is needed to build it, but not to run it.  If CUDA isn't available at runtime, those plugins just don't get loaded.
> 
> Thanks for the clarification.  However, we also need to be buildability
> inside main to comply with Debian policy.  One possible solution would
> be:
> 
>   1. provide a build option which excludes non-free code
>   2. provide a separate code tree (which might build-depend
>      from libopenmm libraries) and creates the needed plugins.
> 
> Kind regards
> 
>    Andreas. 
> 
> 
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