mpich 3.1.4 in rawhide - soname changes

Sandro Mani manisandro at gmail.com
Thu Mar 12 09:51:03 UTC 2015


On 11.03.2015 20:51, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> I updated mpich 3.1 to 3.1.4 in rawhide.  I wouldn't have thought this would
> make a difference, but apparently upstream decided to rename libraries
> (libmpich.so.12 -> libmpi.so.12) and drop a sub-library (libopa.so.1),
> apparently not having any understanding of how sonames work.  Or perhaps I'm
> just naive in thinking a 3.1 -> 3.1.4 version jump shouldn't introduce ABI
> incompatible changes.
>
> So, things need to be rebuilt in rawhide.  I checked in the changes to F22
> have haven't built yet.  mpich needs a rebuild in F22 though I think for
> fortran mod api changes.
>
Looks like

MPI_BIN=/usr/lib/mpich/bin

is now

MPI_BIN=/usr/lib/mpi/bin

whereas i.e.

MPI_LIB=/usr/lib/mpich/lib

is still using "mpich".


I suppose this should be fixed?




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