[mpich-discuss] package issue on fedora

[bruno.guerraz at orange.com]

The answer is in the link provided by Zbyszek :
" MPI implementation specific files MUST be installed in the directories used by the used MPI compiler ($MPI_BIN, $MPI_LIB and so on)."

With my binaries installed under /usr/lib64/mpich/bin, I have the good requires

-----Message d'origine-----
De : Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek [mailto:zbyszek at in.waw.pl] 
Envoyé : mardi 27 novembre 2018 15:01
À : bruno via discuss
Cc : GUERRAZ Bruno TGI/OLS
Objet : Re: [mpich-discuss] package issue on fedora

On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 01:40:32PM +0000, bruno via discuss wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am packaging a software that use MPICH on fedora. When I try to install the package, dnf tells me :
> conflicting requests
>   - nothing provides libmpi.so.12()(64bit) needed by khiops-9.0.x86_64
>   - nothing provides libmpicxx.so.12()(64bit) needed by 
> khiops-9.0.x86_64
> 
> And when I run "rpm -q --provides mpich" I have :
> libmpi.so.12()(64bit)(mpich-x86_64)
> libmpicxx.so.12()(64bit)(mpich-x86_64)

The mpi libraries are not installed in the normal library search path in Fedora, hence the provides/requires tags use a suffix. This suffix also allows multiple mpi implementations to provide libmpi.

See https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/MPI/.

If you post your .spec file somewhere, I can take a look.

Zbyszek

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