Re: [OMPI users] Problems in 1.3 loading shared libs when using VampirServer

2009-02-24 Thread michael.meinel
Hello, I have a runtime-linking problem with MPI 1.3 that is very similar. We apply MPI in a Python-based framework. For some platforms we use a patched Python version that does the MPI_Init() call. On some machines we use an unmodified Python with a small module (minimpi) that cares for the MPI_

Re: [OMPI users] Problems in 1.3 loading shared libs when usingVampirServer

2009-02-24 Thread michael.meinel
> > Upon further investigation, it seems to be a problem similar to this: > > http://www.open-mpi.org/community/lists/devel/2005/09/0359.php > > The dynamic parts of the library are however no more linked against > > their frameworks. > I looked at your tarball -- I don't know anything about Pytho

Re: [OMPI users] Problems in 1.3 loading shared libs whenusingVampirServer

2009-02-25 Thread michael.meinel
Thanks for the hints. > You have some possible workarounds: > > - We recommended to the PyMPI author a while ago that he add his own > dlopen() of libmpi before calling MPI_INIT, but specifically using > RTLD_GLOBAL, so that the library is opened in the global process space > (not a private

Re: [OMPI users] Problems in 1.3 loading shared libswhenusingVampirServer

2009-02-25 Thread michael.meinel
>> That would involve patching Python in some nifty places which would >> probably lead to less Platform independence, so no option yet. > I should have been more clear: what I meant was to engage the Python > community to get such a feature to be implemented upstream in Python > itself. Since