MPL is used in both MPICH and hydra, as well as in standalone build of romio and libpmi. It is unnecessary and troublesome for hydra etc to acquire dependency on GPU stack. Splitting the MPL convenience library allows for finer-grain dependency.
Fixes #6986
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MPL is used in both MPICH and hydra, as well as in standalone build of romio and libpmi. It is unnecessary and troublesome for hydra etc to acquire dependency on GPU stack. Splitting the MPL convenience library allows for finer-grain dependency.
Fixes #6986
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