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A parallel application binary interface for Fortran 2018 compilers.
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RFE: Don't link to MPI Fortran interface libraries #587

Open jabl opened 5 years ago

jabl commented 5 years ago

It would be nice if the OpenCoarrays MPI library would link only to the C MPI library. At least with openmpi, it currently links also to the Fortran interface libraries. E.g. on Ubuntu 18.04 using the system openmpi 2.1.1-8:


 > ldd lib/libcaf_mpi.so
        linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffec4589000)
        libmpi.so.20 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmpi.so.20 (0x00007f2f98eaa000)
        libmpi_usempif08.so.20 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmpi_usempif08.so.20 (0x00007f2f98c7a000)
        libmpi_usempi_ignore_tkr.so.20 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmpi_usempi_ignore_tkr.so.20 (0x00007f2f98a74000)
        libmpi_mpifh.so.20 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmpi_mpifh.so.20 (0x00007f2f9881d000)
        libgfortran.so.4 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgfortran.so.4 (0x00007f2f9843e000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f2f980a0000)
        libgcc_s.so.1 => /home/janne/src/gfortran/trunk/install/lib64/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f2f97e88000)
        libquadmath.so.0 => /home/janne/src/gfortran/trunk/install/lib64/libquadmath.so.0 (0x00007f2f97c48000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f2f97857000)
        libopen-rte.so.20 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libopen-rte.so.20 (0x00007f2f975cf000)
        libopen-pal.so.20 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libopen-pal.so.20 (0x00007f2f9731d000)
        librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007f2f97115000)
        libhwloc.so.5 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libhwloc.so.5 (0x00007f2f96ed8000)
        libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f2f96cb9000)
        /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f2f993ba000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f2f96ab5000)
        libutil.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libutil.so.1 (0x00007f2f968b2000)
        libnuma.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnuma.so.1 (0x00007f2f966a7000)
        libltdl.so.7 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libltdl.so.7 (0x00007f2f9649d000)

Here, the libraries libmpi_usempif08, libmpi_usempi_ignore_tkr and libmpi_mpifh are Fortran interfaces to the "actual" C MPI library libmpi.

If OpenCoarrays would depend and link only to the C MPI library, it would make life easier, as one would likely be able to use the MPI library provided via the system packages rather than having to build one oneself for each Fortran compiler and compiler version that one wishes to use.

rouson commented 5 years ago

Hi @jabl,

That would work in the short-term, but there's ongoing discussion about implementing some parts of the libcaf_mpi in Fortran. If we go that route, we would definitely want to take advantage of the mpif08 module defined in the MPI standard so at least the link to libmpi_usempif08 would come back. In fact, I'd very much like to see some parts of libcaf_mpi implemented in Fortran for several reasons so I'd say it's more than just a discussion. It's a desire and the only question is staffing the effort and evaluating the success of it as we progress. I'll leave it to @zbeekman to decide whether to disable linking to the named libraries for now and then pull them back in when necessary.

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