Opened 12 years ago

Closed 12 years ago

#34180 closed enhancement (invalid)

boost: add mpi support by default

Reported by: christophe.prudhomme@… Owned by: adfernandes (Andrew Fernandes)
Priority: Normal Milestone:
Component: ports Version: 2.0.4
Keywords: haspatch Cc:
Port: boost

Description

Hi

would it be possible to have the variant +openmpi set on by default ? this way all boost libraries would be available like for example in Debian.

attached the (trivial) patch for that.

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Portfile-add-mpi-by-default.patch (236 bytes) - added by christophe.prudhomme@… 12 years ago.

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Change History (3)

Changed 12 years ago by christophe.prudhomme@…

comment:1 Changed 12 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)

Keywords: haspatch added
Owner: changed from macports-tickets@… to adfernandes@…
Summary: add mpi support by defaultboost: add mpi support by default
Type: requestenhancement

comment:2 in reply to:  1 Changed 12 years ago by adfernandes (Andrew Fernandes)

Resolution: invalid
Status: newclosed

The problem is that openmpi doesn't just pull in a library, it installs openmpi as well, which is rather large.

I'd turn the question around and say "why not just add the variant to your ${prefix}/etc/macports/variants.conf file?

I understand why you're asking, but then you need to ask "why not add python as a default variant"... and it keeps getting bigger...

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