Re: [PATCH 1/4] gnu: openmpi: Add memchecker support

[Eric Bavier <ericbavier@gmail.com>]

Ludovic Courtès writes:

> Eric Bavier <ericbavier@gmail.com> skribis:
>
>> From 3aaab98e3b9a0b1b893dd5bc64e098136364e717 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Eric Bavier <bavier@member.fsf.org>
>> Date: Sat, 17 May 2014 00:02:44 -0500
>> Subject: [PATCH 1/4] gnu: openmpi: Add memchecker support
>>
>> * gnu/packages/mpi.scm (openmpi) [inputs]: Add valgrind.
>>   [arguments]: Add configure flags for memchecker.
>
> [...]
>
>>      (native-inputs
>>       `(("pkg-config" ,pkg-config)))
>>      (propagated-inputs
>> -     `(("gfortran" ,gfortran-4.8)))
>> +     `(("gfortran" ,gfortran-4.8)
>> +       ("valgrind" ,valgrind)))
>
> Why is Valgrind propagated?  I would expect it to be used only in
> OpenMPI’s test suite, no?

The intention of OpenMPI's memchecker option is to allow one to more
easily use valgrind when executing mpi programs.  That being said, it is
an optional feature, so it may not need to be propagated.  I'll look at
that again.

>
> (I also wonder why GFortran is propagated, probably overlooked it
> before.)

GFortran needs to be propagated for the OpenMPI compiler wrappers.

-- 
Eric Bavier