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

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 19 May 2010 at 11:28, Kevin.Buckley at ecs.vuw.ac.nz wrote:
| >
| > 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.

I quoted from the most current sources of Rmpi.
 
| Had it still been there, then I believe that this issue would not
| have arisen?

It is still there.

-- 
  Regards, Dirk