Re: Building MPE for LAM.
Just about ready to update lam to 6.5.5. Any progress on mpe-source
package?
Take care,
Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp> writes:
> Adam C Powell IV <hazelsct@mit.edu> immo vero scripsit
>
> > >I am thinking of making
> > >"mpich-mpe-source" package, which contains a .tar.bz2 of
> > >MPE source-tree, so that LAM can extract it at build-time,
> > >to create MPE for LAM.
>
> > Sounds cool. Just two questions:
> >
> > First, suppose I have a package which can be built against mpich or lam,
> > selected by an environment variable (defaults to mpich). Will the
> > future lam3-dev be all I need to build this with MPE support in lam?
> > Will I be able to just link -lmpe -lpmpich, or will those names change?
> > Will they be shared libs, or just static like in mpich?
>
> I should hope so, but I have not yet looked into the details.
> Whether they are static or shared libs is a question I have not
> yet found an answer to.
>
> I haven't looked closely enough to it yet, but I am doubtful if it could
> produce useful shared objects, but I could be wrong, and
> please prove me wrong :P
>
>
> > Second, why create a new package, instead of just including it in the
> > lam source, or extracting it at bulid time using "apt get source mpich
> > && mv mpich-ver.si.on/src/mpe ." somewhere in debian/rules (like atlas
> > does for blas and lapack)?
>
> That is something which autobuilders do not seem to like.
> Having a working deb-src lines is not mandatory for
> pacages to be building.
> Packages should be able to build if the Build-Depends are
> satisfied.
>
> In fact, blas and lapack should be converted to this way, although
> this way looks crude, or someone should put something like
> Build-Source-Depends in to policy.
>
>
> regards,
> junichi
>
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