Bug 786201

Summary: MPI_MAN environment variable incorrectly set in module file
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Jonathan Underwood <jonathan.underwood>
Component: mpich2Assignee: Doug Ledford <dledford>
Status: CLOSED DEFERRED QA Contact: Red Hat Kernel QE team <kernel-qe>
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Version: 6.1CC: jshortt, pasteur, susi.lehtola
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Description Jonathan Underwood 2012-01-31 17:31:38 UTC
Description of problem:
On x86_64m the openmpi environment module file sets:

setenv MPI_MAN /usr/share/man/openmpi-x86_64

whereas the mpich2 environment module file sets

setenv  MPI_MAN /usr/share/man/mpich2

i.e. without the -%{_arch} suffix. 

The OpenMPI module file is correct, in my opinion. Please update the mpich2 package to be consistent.

Also, why does mpich2 install its environment module file in a different place to openmpi?

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
mpich2-1.2.1-2.3.el6.x86_64

Comment 2 Susi Lehtola 2012-01-31 17:49:43 UTC
(In reply to comment #0)
> Description of problem:
> On x86_64m the openmpi environment module file sets:
> 
> setenv MPI_MAN /usr/share/man/openmpi-x86_64
> 
> whereas the mpich2 environment module file sets
> 
> setenv  MPI_MAN /usr/share/man/mpich2
> 
> i.e. without the -%{_arch} suffix. 
> 
> The OpenMPI module file is correct, in my opinion. Please update the mpich2
> package to be consistent.

This is probably straight from Fedora, where the MPICH2 maintainer thought that architecture dependent man files do not really make much sense. The MPI guideline should probably be changed in this regard.

> Also, why does mpich2 install its environment module file in a different place
> to openmpi?

My guess is that RHEL contains a version of mpich2 that was breaking the Fedora
Environment Modules guidelines wrt the placement of the module.

Comment 4 Suzanne Logcher 2012-02-14 23:29:53 UTC
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Comment 5 Tru Huynh 2013-07-11 08:37:28 UTC
module load mpich2-x86_64
man mpd yields:

mpd(1)                             mpd cmds                             mpd(1)

NAME
       mpd

FILE
       /sandbox/balaji/maint/mpich2-1.2.1-tmp/src/pm/mpd/mpd.py

...