Thanks for the quick reply. That doesn't seem to be it though. Homebrew only
uses the configure flags
--prefix=... \
--disable-dependency-tracking \
--disable-silent-rules \
--enable-ipv6
If requested, it will also add
--enable-mpi-thread-multiple
I just tried compiling Open-MPI 1.7.3 by hand using
./configure --prefix=/tmp/ompi_install --disable-dependency-tracking
--disable-silent-rules --enable-ipv6 --enable-mpi-thread-multiple
--without-devel-headers
and the 'event2' headers are still under /tmp/ompi_install/include. As far as I
can tell, the conflict is still there.
On 3 November, 2013 at 9:44:46 AM, Ralph Castain (r...@open-mpi.org) wrote:
>
> I'm unfamiliar with Homebrew, but it sounds like they created
> the OMPI package --with-devel-headers for some reason. That
> doesn't make a lot of sense for a distribution as it is only used
> by OMPI developers who want access to OMPI internal functions
> from inside a test suite.
>
> We unfortunately have no control over how 3rd party packagers
> decide to build OMPI, which is why we generally advise building
> it from source instead. In this case, nothing changed between
> 1.6 and 1.7 - except that the packager decided to build it with
> a different configure option.
>
> We include libevent in a completely "hidden" manner for one simple
> reason - OMPI uses functions in libevent that are not present
> in older versions of libevent that are typically the ones provided
> by quite a few packagers (e.g., CentOS and Mac). Users of those
> systems would find them unable to execute OMPI if we didn't, or
> we'd have bizarre levels of code protection/branches throughout
> OMPI to resolve all the use-cases for the wide range of libevent
> versions out there.
>
> I'd suggest you "uninstall" the Homebrew package, and simply
> download/build OMPI from the source code tarball. The problem
> will then disappear.
>
>
> On Nov 3, 2013, at 6:03 AM, Dominique Orban
> wrote:
>
> > Dear list,
> >
> > I'm a humble indirect user of Open-MPI. On OSX, my Open-MPI installation
> is supplied by the Homebrew package manager [1]. Another package
> supplied by Homebrew is libevent.
> >
> > I recently read on the dev list [2] a discussion about libevent
> having always been part of Open-MPI but being more apparent in
> 1.7.3.
> >
> > At least on OSX, this causes unfortunate header file conflicts.
> If a user were to install both libevent and Open-MPI by hand to
> /usr/local (which is essentially what Homebrew does), one of
> the two would obliterate the 'event2' header files of the other.
> As far as I can tell, the 'event2' header files in Open-MPI differ
> from those in libevent 2.0.21 (the version currently distributed
> in Homebrew). This kind of conflict was absent from Open-MPI
> 1.6.
> >
> > Homebrew supplies Open-MPI 1.7.3 by default because the compilers
> shipped with the latest OSX development environment (Xcode
> 5.0) fail to build Open-MPI 1.6.5 correctly (I do not use those
> compilers myself, but I am told `make check` fails) [3].
> >
> > In view of the header file conflict, I'm wondering if there is
> a strong argument for not keeping the libevent-related header
> files of Open-MPI private. Stashing libevent-related stuff
> to a private location could probably be done more easily than
> adding logic to build Open-MPI against an external libevent.
> It's unfortunate for Open-MPI to conflict in this way with seemingly
> unrelated software packages that rely on libevent (e.g., tmux).
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > --
> > Dominique
> >
> > [1] http://brew.sh
> > [2] http://www.open-mpi.org/community/lists/devel/2013/04/12273.php
> > [3] https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/issues/23642
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