Comment 5 for bug 234837

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Dirk Eddelbuettel (edd) wrote : [Bug 234837] Re: Binutils corrupts Open MPI

Cesare,

Thanks for your mail!

On 15 June 2008 at 20:53, Cesare Tirabassi wrote:
| I still have not received any answer to my emails (Friday 13 June @12:22:46 CEST and Sunday 15 June @21:25:20 CEST).

I replied to your email from Friday on Friday right when I got, ie before
leaving for work:

  From: Dirk Eddelbuettel <email address hidden>
  To: Cesare Tirabassi <email address hidden>
  Subject: Re: SUSPECT: Re: [Rd] Rmpi segfault after install on Ubuntu Hardy Heron
  Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 07:27:37 -0500

and exim4 had no issues as far as I can see

  2008-06-13 07:27:37 1K78NV-00078e-Jd <= <email address hidden> U=edd P=local S=1869 <email address hidden>
  2008-06-13 07:27:39 1K78NV-00078e-Jd => <email address hidden> R=smarthost T=remote_smtp_smarthost H=smtp.g.comcast.net [76.96.30.117] X=TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32 DN="C=US,ST=Pennsylvania,L=Philadelphia,O=Comcast Cable Communications Management LLC,OU=Business Center,CN=smtp.comcast.net"
  2008-06-13 07:27:39 1K78NV-00078e-Jd Completed

Did you get that or not?

Today I only received (automated) Launchpad messages from you but no direct
mail. I did send you one given that I had not heard from you.

Looks like there may be email troubles at your end? Just to be sure, I added
both you email addresses as CC.

| In summary, this is apparently caused by compiling openmpi with -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions (default from latest dpkg-buildpackage).

If it is dpkg-buildpackages, it would 'hit' us too as we're building in
unstable. So I think it may be something else.

Could it be that Ubuntu has a different GCC default in stripping symbols or
something? The first person I talked to about this was doko but is always so
overwhelmed that he told me to please file a bug report which I did.

Which promptly got ignored by everybody.

| This could possibly be due to any of the three libopenmpi1 different interrelated libraries sharing symbols?

That was my immediate gut reaction as well. But that is a design choice Open
MPI made upstream, and "we" (as in Debian's Open MPI maintainer) do not fight
it.

*If* you guys changed build options, I'd start by reverting to what we do.

But if you guys changed nothing, well then I am at a loss.

| Can you and/or Manuel comment on this before we release a fix?

[ CCing Manuel who you forgot to CC. ]

Sure. Let's hash this out for a moment to get it right. Manuel may want to
comment as I may well have overlooked or forgotten something.

Dirk

| ** Changed in: openmpi (Ubuntu Intrepid)
| Status: New => Incomplete
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| Binutils corrupts Open MPI
| https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/234837
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