#1598: ExternalLibraries/MPI does not auto-detect openmpi on Debian/testing -----------------------------------+---------------------------------------- Reporter: rhaas | Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: minor | Milestone: Component: EinsteinToolkit thorn | Version: development version Keywords: MPI | -----------------------------------+---------------------------------------- configure.sh expects to find libmpi.a in $MPI_DIR/lib however Debian no longer delivers a static libmpi.a but only libmpi.so so the tests fails. The fix is likely similar to what HDF5 already does (ie accept any of .a .so .dylib as extensions for libraries). The fix is a bit complex though, so (given that Debian/stable is still fine) this is a reminder for after the release. Explictly specifying MPI_DIR, MPI_INC_DIRS, MPI_LIB_DIRS and MPI_LIBS allows this to be worked around in the current release.

For reference, the fragment from HDF5 looks like this: {{{ # We look in these directories DIRS="/usr /usr/local /usr/local/hdf5 /usr/local/packages/hdf5 /usr/local/apps/hdf5 /opt/local ${HOME} ${HOME}/hdf5 c:/packages/hdf5" # look into each directory for dir in $DIRS; do # libraries might have different file extensions for libext in a so dylib; do # libraries can be in /lib or /lib64 for libdir in lib64 lib; do # These files must exist FILES="include/hdf5.h $(for lib in ${HDF5_CXX_LIBS} ${HDF5_FORTRAN_LIBS} ${HDF5_C_LIBS}; do echo ${libdir}/lib${lib}.${libext}; done)" # assume this is the one and check all needed files HDF5_DIR="$dir" for file in $FILES; do # discard this directory if one file was not found if [ ! -r "$dir/$file" ]; then unset HDF5_DIR break fi done # don't look further if all files have been found if [ -n "$HDF5_DIR" ]; then break fi done # don't look further if all files have been found if [ -n "$HDF5_DIR" ]; then break fi done # don't look further if all files have been found if [ -n "$HDF5_DIR" ]; then break fi done }}}