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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
(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.
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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 ...