Subject: bug#74010: openmpi@5 requires propagated libraries

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2024 14:23:39 +0200

Andreas Enge <[email-masked]> skribis:

> Am Fri, Oct 25, 2024 at 12:31:29PM +0200 schrieb Ludovic Courtès:
>> Note that ‘cm’ as currently packaged does not depend on openmpi.
>
> No, because I did not add the "--enable-mpi" configuration option.
> This is just an example; I think the problem would occur with any
> software using openmpi@5.

Only for software using Libtool.  For example, this works:

  guix build intel-mpi-benchmarks --with-input=openmpi@4=openmpi@5

This particular package uses CMake, which is more common than Autotools
in this domain.

Maybe someday we’ll just remove .la files wholesale, as Debian and
others have been doing for a while.

Ludo’.