Bug 1574462 - Problems with the package config file for the fftw3_mpi library
Summary: Problems with the package config file for the fftw3_mpi library
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Status: CLOSED EOL
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: fftw
Version: 27
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Conrad Meyer
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-05-03 11:26 UTC by Pavel Ondračka
Modified: 2018-11-30 21:29 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2018-11-30 21:29:55 UTC
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Description Pavel Ondračka 2018-05-03 11:26:39 UTC
Description of problem:
I would like to link my program with both libfftw3 and libfftw3_mpi and preferably I would like to use the pkg-config for autodetection.
However at the moment it is not possible to detect both with pkgconfig, since the .pc files have both identical names.

IMO the libfftw3_mpi should have come with a fftw3_mpi.pc instead of fftw3.pc file and pkg-config --libs fftw3_mpi should result in the appropriate -L/usr/lib64/openmpi/lib -lfftw3_mpi

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
3.3.5

How reproducible:
always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. install fftw-devel fftw-openmpi-devel 
2. module load openmpi
3. pkg-config --libs fftw3_mpi fftw3

Actual results:
Package fftw3_mpi was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `fftw3_mpi.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
Package 'fftw3_mpi', required by 'virtual:world', not found

the call to pkg-config --libs fftw3 produces
-L/usr/lib64/openmpi/lib -lfftw3

Expected results:
I would expect the call to pkg-config --libs fftw3_mpi fftw3 to actually produce the following output: -L/usr/lib64/openmpi/lib -fftw3_mpi -lfftw3

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Comment 1 Pavel Ondračka 2018-05-07 08:56:28 UTC
I found an upstream bug, discussing similar problematic:
https://github.com/FFTW/fftw3/issues/57

So dunno if this should or even can be fixed in the Fedora side (rpm spec file) or upstream? I might have time to try prepare some patches, but ATM I'm not sure what the proper solution should be.

Comment 2 Ben Cotton 2018-11-27 15:48:01 UTC
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