On Wed, 2011-07-06 at 23:39 +0300, Jussi Lehtola wrote: > On Wed, 06 Jul 2011 13:09:41 -0700 > Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > .. but on the other hand, the same logic applies in the opposite > > > sense: if something requires OpenMPI's libotf.so.0, also the > > > truetype libotf will satisfy the requirement. (Although openmpi > > > apps typically link to a half a dozen other openmpi libs as well). > > > > Nothing really could require OpenMPI's libotf as things stand, because > > of what I wrote above: nothing can find it unless it uses a custom > > linker path. If OpenMPI actually wanted the library to be something > > other packages can use, it should really install it in a shared path > > (and, as we've already discussed, rename it). If we're just talking > > about different OpenMPI packages, they can handle the > > intra-dependencies manually, I'd say. > > Not really, since when the MPI environment is loaded the relevant > library paths are added to LD_LIBRARY_PATH. > > They're not installed in system locations, since e.g. all MPI libraries > ship with libmpi.so, and there are many variants: OpenMPI, MPICH2, > MVAPICH, and so on. In that case it may be best just to get the library renamed, I guess. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
