[R-sig-hpc] Rmpi on NetBSD with OpenMPI

[Kevin.Buckley at ecs.vuw.ac.nz]

>
> Kevin, Aleksej,
>
> Sorry for jumping here late but ...

Never a problem,

> ... we had very similar issues with Open MPI 1.2.* and the global
> visibility of symbols which lead Hao Yu (Rmpi's author) and myself
> (Debian Rmpi maintainer, and at one time also Debian openmpi
> co-maintainer) to do a lot of tests.  You can probably find old
> posts of mine on the openmpi lists.

I will certainly go and target my search using that info: sounds as
though it will be very instructive.

> I believe that for us, the 'winning' change was
>
> #ifdef OPENMPI
> 	dlopen("libmpi.so.0", RTLD_GLOBAL | RTLD_LAZY);
> #endif
>
> after which we were golden.

Exactly what I was rambling on about, that makes it explicit.

However, I suppose the question that needs to be asked of you now
is, if  that worked so well for you then, how come it is no longer
visible (explicit) in the current version of Rmpi.

Had it still been there, then I believe that this issue would not
have arisen?

Kevin

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