Re: [Gretl-devel] Nice to see Gretl updated on Fedora 26

On 21 November 2017 at 12:06, Allin Cottrell wrote: | On Tue, 21 Nov 2017, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote: | | > On Tue, 21 Nov 2017, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | > | >> I _could_ change the standard build to always use openmpi. May open yet | >> another can of worms, but at least it is less involved. | > | > Would gretl_x11 work on a system without openmpi installed, or would it | > complain about the missing library? | | It will work OK, as will gretlcli. It's just gretlmpi that won't work | without the MPI library. | | We've taken some pains to arrange this: neither gretl_x11 nor gretlcli | are linked against the MPI library; we get the required symbols at | runtime via dlopen, if they're available. That sounds good. So ... one never needs one of the MPI frontend, ie orte_run? Or, conversely, one gets this only when gretl is launched this way? Ie user opts in, no side effects for others? Can't stand in the way of such Pareto-improvements ;-) Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd(a)debian.org