openmpi-dev depends on libibverbs-dev

[Olaf Lenz]

I'm using openmpi on Jaunty.

It looks as though libopenmpi-dev does not depend on libibverbs-dev, but it should.
When I try to link a program and libopenmpi-dev is installed, but libibverbs-dev is not, I get an error:

bin/bash ../../libtool --tag=CXX --mode=link mpic++ -Wall -L/home/olenz/software/lib -o libesutil.la bindings.lo TupleVector.lo Timer.lo
/bin/grep: /usr/lib/libibverbs.la: No such file or directory
/bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib/libibverbs.la: No such file or directory
libtool: link: `/usr/lib/libibverbs.la' is not a valid libtool archive

When I install libibverbs-dev, the error is gone. This looks to me as though the dependencies of libopenmpi-dev should include libibverbs-dev.

However, as far as I understand, libibverbs is an infiniband library. In principle, I do not see a reason why I do have to install a library for a hardware that I do not have on my laptop.

[Nizamov Shawkat (nizamov-shawkat)]

I also hit this bug. I am compiling the package, depending on openmpi (in my ppa).
It was a big surprise to see build failed because package was perfectly buildable package in pbuilder on my desktop.
Interestingly, build fails only on lpia architecture and succeeds on i386 and x86_64 arch's.

/bin/bash ../libtool --tag=CXX --mode=link mpic++ -g -O2 -version-info 3:0:0 -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -o libmeep_mpi.la -rpath /usr/lib anisotropic_averaging.lo bands.lo boundaries.lo bicgstab.lo control_c.lo cw_fields.lo dft.lo energy_and_flux.lo fields.lo loop_in_chunks.lo grace.lo h5fields.lo h5file.lo initialize.lo integrate.lo monitor.lo mympi.lo output_directory.lo polarization.lo sources.lo step.lo step_db.lo structure.lo time.lo update_eh.lo mpb.lo update_pols.lo vec.lo step_generic.lo -lhdf5 -lz -lgsl -L/usr/lib/gcc/i686-linux-gnulp/4.2.3 -L/usr/lib/gcc/i686-linux-gnulp/4.2.3/../../.. -lharminv -llapack -lblas -lgfortranbegin -lgfortran -lm -lgcc_s -lfftw3 -lm
/bin/grep: /usr/lib/libibverbs.la: No such file or directory
/bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib/libibverbs.la: No such file or directory
libtool: link: `/usr/lib/libibverbs.la' is not a valid libtool archive
make[4]: *** [libmeep_mpi.la] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/build/buildd/meep-0.20.4/debian/build-openmpi/src'
make[3]: *** [all] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/build/buildd/meep-0.20.4/debian/build-openmpi/src'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/build/buildd/meep-0.20.4/debian/build-openmpi'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/build/buildd/meep-0.20.4/debian/build-openmpi'
make: *** [build-stamp-openmpi] Error 2
dpkg-buildpackage: failure: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2

[Nizamov Shawkat (nizamov-shawkat)]

> Interestingly, build fails only on lpia architecture and succeeds on i386 and x86_64 arch's.

even more - build fails only on lpia on jaunty and hardy, but not on the intrepid

[James Page (james-page)]

I believe this issue has been resolved in the current version of openmpi in Ubuntu - marking 'Fix Released'