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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 12:24:39PM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2 Sep 2005, Anders Logg wrote:
> 
> >I tried a couple of things:
> >
> >1. Installing both mpich and lam4-dev:
> >
> > Works fine for me, no problems and /etc/alternatives/mpi points to
> > /usr/include/lam, but maybe I'm missing the point?
> 
> I had both mpich-dev and lam4-dev installed. I think the problem is with 
> the alternatives system, yes.

Maybe this has been fixed in Debian, since I didn't have a problem?

> Johan confirmed the problem, so it is not just some flakiness at my end. 
> He can probably explain the issue better than I can.
> 
> >2. Installing only lam4-dev and removing all mpich:
> >
> > configure breaks, since it looks for mpirun and mpirun does not seem
> > to be in any of the lam4 packages.
> >
> >Why do you want to compile agains lam4 rather than mpich?
> 
> N/A. I've never tried to compile against lam, though why is that not 
> allowed?

Nothing is disallowed, only untested.

/Anders