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Re: OpenMPI rpath entries (Was: question on binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath)




On 19/01/2017 11:20, James Cowgill wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 18/01/17 22:39, Nico Schlömer wrote:
>> I'm co-maintaining the Trilinos package [1] in Debian and recently found
>> a bunch of new lintian warnings of the kind
>> binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath [2]. It say in the description of the warning:
>> ```
>> To fix this problem, look for link lines like: 
>>
>> gcc test.o -o test -Wl,--rpath,/usr/local/lib
>>
>> or 
>>
>> gcc test.o -o test -R/usr/local/lib
>>
>> and remove the -Wl,--rpath or -R argument.
>> ```
>> Indeed, the Trilinos installation contains many of those lines, but they
>> are necessary too. When executing the test binaries (which are compiled
>> in the build tree alongside the libraries), they have to find the linked
>> shared libraries. Messing with the rpath is necessary.
>>
>> That's not true later on when the libraries are _installed_, of course.
>> For this, CMake has the switch CMAKE_SKIP_INSTALL_RPATH [3], which
>> serves exactly that purpose. For some reason, lintian doesn't seem to be
>> happy with that though.
> The CMAKE_SKIP_INSTALL_RPATH option only affects the rpaths which CMake
> itself inserts. It does not affect any rpaths manually added with other
> -Wl,--rpath options. The culprit here is probably openmpi which adds all
> of these rpath entries:
>
> $ mpicc -show
> [...] -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/usr//lib -Wl,-rpath
> -Wl,/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/openmpi/lib [...]
>
> Maybe it shouldn't do that. The /usr//lib one is clearly useless and the
> it seems that most of the libraries from
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/openmpi/lib are symlinked into
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu anyway.
>
Agreed. Will remove these on the next upload.

Best regards
Alastair

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