Bug 542745

Additionally, you also need to prepend LD_LIBRARY_PATH with %{_libdir}/mpich2/lib in the module to make the libraries visible.

(In reply to comment #0)
> There are still a few problems with the environment module:
> 
> - The module MUST be placed in /etc/modulefiles, not
> /usr/share/Modules/modulefiles.
> 
Why is it a 'MUST'? environment-modules manpage doesn't support that assertion, at best the requirement to place it in /etc/modulefiles should be optional.

> - MPI_PYTHON_SITEARCH MUST be defined as %{_python_sitearch}/mpich2/.
> 
Why is that env variable even necessary at all, neither mpich2 nor openmpi install anything under %{_python_sitearch}/, I would rather remove it from mpich2 module file.

Although I've thought of putting some mpich2 python scripts under %{_python_sitelib}, but upstream doesn't intend them to be used that way. Even if I manage to put the *.py under %{_python_sitelib}, the env var. is still not needed in the module file for mpich2.

> 
> Also, the RPM macro belongs to mpich2-devel, not mpich2, as you only need it
> for rpm development.  

Will move around in future update.

(In reply to comment #2)
> (In reply to comment #0)
> > There are still a few problems with the environment module:
> > 
> > - The module MUST be placed in /etc/modulefiles, not
> > /usr/share/Modules/modulefiles.
> > 
> Why is it a 'MUST'? environment-modules manpage doesn't support that assertion,
> at best the requirement to place it in /etc/modulefiles should be optional.

Have a look at the Environment Modules guidelines. I should have written it as a MUST.

Anyway, the reason is simple enough to see with

$ module avail
------------------------ /usr/share/Modules/modulefiles ------------------------
dot           module-info   mpich2-x86_64 use.own
module-cvs    modules       null

------------------------------- /etc/modulefiles -------------------------------
openmpi-x86_64


If you put it in /etc/modulefiles, it's a lot easier to see what program modules are available. The stuff in /usr/share/Modules/modulefiles are shell macros.

> > - MPI_PYTHON_SITEARCH MUST be defined as %{_python_sitearch}/mpich2/.
> > 
> Why is that env variable even necessary at all, neither mpich2 nor openmpi
> install anything under %{_python_sitearch}/, I would rather remove it from
> mpich2 module file.

Oh, but there are Python wrappers for MPI such as pypar, mpi4py and so on that are compiled against MPI libraries and need a place to put the files. Then, if there is some Python package that uses those, you would again need the directories.

It's a lot simpler to have those few extra lines in the MPI runtime package spec, than replicate them in other places.

> Although I've thought of putting some mpich2 python scripts under
> %{_python_sitelib}, but upstream doesn't intend them to be used that way. Even
> if I manage to put the *.py under %{_python_sitelib}, the env var. is still not
> needed in the module file for mpich2.

Those can stay in %{_bindir}.

> > Also, the RPM macro belongs to mpich2-devel, not mpich2, as you only need it
> > for rpm development.  
> 
> Will move around in future update.  

Thanks.

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Furthermore, the Fortran module directory also needs to be fixed, it should be
 MPI_FORTRAN_MOD_DIR %{_fmoddir}/mpich2/
with the mpich2 package owning the directory. We want to follow the filesystem hierarchy standards as closely as possible.

ping?

ping again! No action in two months?

This needs to be resolved ASAP!

ping.

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 13 development cycle.
Changing version to '13'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

Okay, so now the value of MPI_PYTHON_SITEARCH is correct.

Could you still move the module file to /etc/modulefiles/ as per the Environment Modules guideline, and add
 prepend-path PYTHONPATH (mpich2 python dir)
to point to the same directory as MPI_PYTHON_SITEARCH? This makes the MPICH2 python modules visible.

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Btw the setting of MANPATH to /usr/share/man/mpich2 prevents reading man pages in /usr/share/man; that should probably be added to the path, too.. As well as /usr/local/share/man, which is also normally in the default path.

(In reply to comment #8)

> 
> Btw the setting of MANPATH to /usr/share/man/mpich2 prevents reading man pages
> in /usr/share/man; that should probably be added to the path, too.. As well as
> /usr/local/share/man, which is also normally in the default path.    

You need to update to environment-modules-3.2.7b-7.{fc11,fc12} currently in updates-testing. And yes, the mpich2 update should have been pushed to stable at the same as the environment-modules one, but ...

I guess this is fixed now.