conflict between libotf and openmpi

Jussi Lehtola jussilehtola at fedoraproject.org
Wed Sep 16 19:04:17 UTC 2009


On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 14:53 -0400, Neal Becker wrote:
> It seems both openmpi and libotf supply a %{_bindir}/otfdump.  otf is 
> either:
> 
> OpenTypeFont (libotf)
> or
> OpenTraceFormat (openmpi)
> 
> I maintain libotf.  I'm not sure how to address this.
> 
> My only interest in libotf is so emacs can use it.  For that, it doesn't 
> need the binaries.  Perhaps they could be put somewhere else?
> 
> I don't know how important otfdump is to openmpi, since I don't use it.  My 
> guess is that in both libotf and openmpi, neither is critical to function, 
> but is a debug aid.

Actually, in this case it shouldn't be a problem for very long, since
every MPI compiler (& runtime) and MPI application should be reworked
ASAP to conform to the new MPI packaging guidelines.

OpenMPI is currently under work at
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=521334
-- 
Jussi Lehtola
Fedora Project Contributor
jussilehtola at fedoraproject.org




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