Re: [OMPI users] Building vs packaging

2016-05-20 Thread Dave Love
dani writes: > I don't know about .deb packages, but at least in the rpms there is a > post install scriptlet that re-runs ldconfig to ensure the new libs > are in the ldconfig cache. MPI packages following the Fedora guidelines don't do that (and rpmlint complains bitterly as a consequence). T

Re: [OMPI users] Building vs packaging

2016-05-19 Thread dani
I don't know about .deb packages, but at least in the rpms there is a post install scriptlet that re-runs ldconfig to ensure the new libs are in the ldconfig cache. On 16/05//2016 18:04, Dave Love wrote: "Rob Malpass" writes: Almost in desperation, I cheated: Why is that cheating? Unless

Re: [OMPI users] Building vs packaging

2016-05-16 Thread Dave Love
"Rob Malpass" writes: > Almost in desperation, I cheated: Why is that cheating? Unless you specifically want a different version, it seems sensible to me, especially as you then have access to packaged versions of at least some MPI programs. Likewise with rpm-based systems, which I'm afraid I

Re: [OMPI users] Building vs packaging

2016-05-16 Thread Jeff Squyres (jsquyres)
+1 to everything so far. Also, look in your shell startup files (e.g., $HOME/.bashrc) to see if certain parts of it are not executed for non-interactive logins. A common mistake we see is a shell startup file like this: # ... do setup for all logins ... if (this is a non-interactive login

Re: [OMPI users] Building vs packaging

2016-05-16 Thread David Shrader
Hey Rob, I don't know if this is what is going on, but in general, when a package is installed via a distro's package management system, it ends up in system locations such as /usr/bin and /usr/lib that are automatically searched when looking for executables and libraries. So, it isn't necess

Re: [OMPI users] Building vs packaging

2016-05-14 Thread Gilles Gouaillardet
Rob, I do not know how Debian packaged openmpi, and they should be asked instead of openmpi. an other option to get things work is to add the path to openmpi libraries in the ld conf. for example, append /opt/openmpi/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf (or into a new file called /etc/ld.so.conf.d/openmpi, tha

[OMPI users] Building vs packaging

2016-05-14 Thread Rob Malpass
Hi all I posted about a fortnight ago to this list as I was having some trouble getting my nodes to be controlled by my master node. Perceived wisdom at the time was to compile with the -enable-orterun-prefix-by-default. For some time I'd been getting cannot open libopen-rte.so.7 which poin