conflict between libotf and openmpi

[Jussi Lehtola]

On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 22:55 +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 September 2009, Jay Fenlason wrote:
> > otfdump will be in
> > openmpi-devel: %{_libdir}/%{name}/bin/ where it won't interfere with
> >  libotf.
> 
> IIUC this will only help wrt. the packaging conflict; interference still 
> happens as $PATH changes e.g. when loading/unloading the openmpi modules.  I 
> don't think there's any other way around that issue besides renaming one of 
> the executables, but whether that's worth doing/necessary is another thing.

Yes, that is true. If the openmpi module is loaded then Open MPI's
otfdump will be used. I'm not sure whether this is a problem, though,
since the module is not loaded by default and one does not run into any
conflicts. Renaming binaries is a nuisance, too.
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Jussi Lehtola
Fedora Project Contributor
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