On 07/13/2016 08:46 PM, Brian Bushnell wrote: > Hi all, > > I noticed that some people are having problems when compiling the BBMap > package. It currently has some dependencies on "mpi.jar", which seems > to come with some Linux installations, but maybe not all. Currently, > the BBMap package does not actually use any MPI calls in normal > operation, so I will probably (temporarily) remove them to make it > easier to compile, in the near future. > > That said, I don't really understand why people like to recompile > BBMap. It's already distributed with compiled class files... it only > needs to be unzipped.
Hello Brian, By policy, all software that is distributed by Debian is compiled from source. There are a number of reasons for this - just for starters being able to patch, port, and otherwise modify the software is paramount the software being considered free (as in speech). A good summarization can be found here [1]. Regarding BBmap, is it currently packaged for Debian? If so, I couldn't find it; perhaps I overlooked it. Or are you inquiring here because you have users who have problems building with BBMap on Debian or Debian derivatives? If it's the latter, we can probably help by getting BBMap packaged for Debian. Then it will be readily available to users as both and source and compile (binary) packages. Feel free to contact me directly or via the list if you would like to pursue this. Cheers, tony [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_Free_Software_Guidelines#debian-legal_tests_for_DFSG_compliance
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