On Jan 30, 2009, at 4:25 PM, Roy Dragseth wrote:
I'm not very familiar with the workings of ltdl, I got this from one
of our
users. Would you suggest that if one use openmpi 1.3 and ltdl you
should not
explicitly link with -lltdl? At least this seems to work correctly
with the
example I posted. That is, I can link the program without specifying
-lltdl so
the symbol seems to resolve to something in the openmpi libraries
and the
example runs without crashing.
Yes, that is what I would recommend.
I note that the Libtool v2.2.6a docs explicitly describe this problem
and say "don't do that" (see section 11.6). But I agree that it's a
less-than-optimal solution for OMPI users because you shouldn't need
to know/care that Open MPI embeds its own copy of libltdl. I have
just posted to the libtool-bug mailing list to see if they would
consider a configure option to add a prefix to OMPI's internal libltdl
symbols, thereby preventing clashes like this. Let's see what they say.
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-libtool/2009-01/msg00032.html
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Jeff Squyres
Cisco Systems
