Bug#686926: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#686926: Bug#686926: liboctave-dev: creates broken .oct files when the OpenMPI flavor of HDF5 (libhdf5-openmpi-dev) is installed

[Thomas Weber]

On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 09:11:34AM -0400, Mike Miller wrote:
> mkoctfile -DMPICH_SKIP_MPICXX=1 -DOMPI_SKIP_MPICXX=1 helloworld.cc
> 
> I don't know enough about HDF5, but if it doesn't make use of the MPI
> C++ bindings at all, I'd argue this should be reassigned to hdf5
> upstream so H5public.h would now contain:
> 
> #ifdef H5_HAVE_PARALLEL
> #   define MPICH_SKIP_MPICXX 1
> #   define OMPI_SKIP_MPICXX 1
> #   include <mpi.h>
> #endif

Is my understanding correct that if I want to use HDF5 and one of MPICH
or MPI with the C++ interface, I have lost?

	Thoma