Greetings, and thanks for this helpful reply. Just a quick note to
say that lam 7 in now in Debian stable, as of a few weeks. Any
feedback on the package esp. by lam experts always appreciated.
Take care,
"Brian W. Barrett" <brbarret_at_[hidden]> writes:
> On Dec 19, 2003, at 9:13 AM, Camm Maguire wrote:
>
> > Greetings! Just a quick note with a few questions on upgrading the
> > Debian package to 7.0:
> >
> > 1) Am assuming binary incompatibility with the 6.5 series.
>
> Correct. Even across shared libraries - users are going to have to recompile their apps :(.
>
> One change - You can now do --enable-shared even if you build the C++ libraries and ROMIO. ROMIO
> will still be built static-only, but the C++ libraries will be a shared library now.
>
> > 2) Notice that libpmpi.a is no longer installed even when built. Am
> > guessing that profiling modules are rolled into liblam.a
>
> libpmpi is no longer. That code was all folded into libmpi.
>
> > 2) hcc, and hf77 are gone.
>
> hcc, hcp, and hf77 should now be symlinks to mpicc, mpiCC, and mpif77. They are no longer binaries
> by themselves. In addition, there should be a symlink from mpiCC to mpic++.
>
> > 4) Is there a doc outlining all diffs like these from 6.5? Have
> > looked at the release notes in install.pdf and the website, but
> > cannot find anything like this.
>
> Not really - some of this is documented in the HISTORY file and the Installation Guide. To be
> honest, since we hide most all of this from the user, we really didn't think about writing up a
> specific document for packagers. As our packaging gets more complicated (with the dynamic module
> support, it will be more complicated) we should probably start to provide such a document.
>
> Let me know if you have any further questions.
>
>
> Brian
>
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