On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 11:04:09 +0100, Ana Guerrero wrote: > > Package: src:hdf5 > Version: 1.8.8-9 > Severity: serious > > In Squeeze there are two virtual packages libhdf5-1.8 and libhdf5-1.8.4, that > allow to install either libhdf5-serial-1.8.4, libhdf5-openmpi-1.8.4, > libhdf5-mpich-1.8.4 or libhdf5-lam-1.8.4 to satisfy the dependency on > libhdf5-1.8.4. (Usually packages are depending on: libhdf5-serial-1.8.4 | > libhdf5-1.8.4) > > In Wheezy those libraries are not longer ABI compatible, therefore > the serial version was renamed libhdf5-7 and also the packages of the others > versions, for example libhdf5-openmpi-7, has a provides line: > Provides: libhdf5-1.8, libhdf5-7 > > So you can install for example, r-cran-hdf5 and it will install by default > the serial version (libhdf5-7), but you can also install it at the > same time than libhdf5-openmpi-7 (or you might have it installed already) > and then you will get it installed with the openMPI version despite being > built > against the serial version, that as said isn't ABI compatible. > do you have pointers/details about that ABI incompatibility? I'm pretty sure I looked through exported symbols and headers from hdf5 a year ago, and didn't see anything that would break when building against the serial version and running against openmpi, but I may have missed something.
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