Provide package config symlinks for mpi.pc, mpi-c.pc, mpi-cxx.pc, and mpi-fort.pc #137
Description
Solution to issue cannot be found in the documentation.
- I checked the documentation.
Issue
Build systems such as CMake rely on the generalized/meta name to search for what MPI is installed on a machine.
That way they can support all MPI distributions without the user knowing what specific version is installed on each machine a project is built on.
It looks like conda doesn't install / symlink the installed package config files to the more general names resulting in CMake and other package config users to fail when requesting details on the installed mpi version.
Proposal:
Have the openmpi-cxx and other language packages provide the 'normalized' name package config file as well
Prior art:
ubuntu etc-alternatives map mpi.pc, mpi-c.pc, mpi-cxx.pc, and mpi-fort.pc to the active MPI implementation.
Installed packages
_libgcc_mutex 0.1 conda_forge conda-forge
_openmp_mutex 4.5 2_gnu conda-forge
binutils 2.40 hdd6e379_0 conda-forge
binutils_impl_linux-64 2.40 hf600244_0 conda-forge
binutils_linux-64 2.40 hbdbef99_2 conda-forge
bzip2 1.0.8 hd590300_5 conda-forge
c-ares 1.24.0 hd590300_0 conda-forge
c-compiler 1.7.0 hd590300_0 conda-forge
ca-certificates 2023.11.17 hbcca054_0 conda-forge
cmake 3.28.1 hcfe8598_0 conda-forge
cxx-compiler 1.7.0 h00ab1b0_0 conda-forge
gcc 12.3.0 h8d2909c_2 conda-forge
gcc_impl_linux-64 12.3.0 he2b93b0_3 conda-forge
gcc_linux-64 12.3.0 h76fc315_2 conda-forge
gxx 12.3.0 h8d2909c_2 conda-forge
gxx_impl_linux-64 12.3.0 he2b93b0_3 conda-forge
gxx_linux-64 12.3.0 h8a814eb_2 conda-forge
icu 73.2 h59595ed_0 conda-forge
kernel-headers_linux-64 2.6.32 he073ed8_16 conda-forge
keyutils 1.6.1 h166bdaf_0 conda-forge
krb5 1.21.2 h659d440_0 conda-forge
ld_impl_linux-64 2.40 h41732ed_0 conda-forge
libcurl 8.5.0 hca28451_0 conda-forge
libedit 3.1.20191231 he28a2e2_2 conda-forge
libev 4.33 hd590300_2 conda-forge
libevent 2.1.12 hf998b51_1 conda-forge
libexpat 2.5.0 hcb278e6_1 conda-forge
libgcc-devel_linux-64 12.3.0 h8bca6fd_103 conda-forge
libgcc-ng 13.2.0 h807b86a_3 conda-forge
libgfortran-ng 13.2.0 h69a702a_3 conda-forge
libgfortran5 13.2.0 ha4646dd_3 conda-forge
libgomp 13.2.0 h807b86a_3 conda-forge
libhwloc 2.9.3 default_h554bfaf_1009 conda-forge
libiconv 1.17 hd590300_2 conda-forge
libnghttp2 1.58.0 h47da74e_1 conda-forge
libnl 3.9.0 hd590300_0 conda-forge
libsanitizer 12.3.0 h0f45ef3_3 conda-forge
libssh2 1.11.0 h0841786_0 conda-forge
libstdcxx-devel_linux-64 12.3.0 h8bca6fd_103 conda-forge
libstdcxx-ng 13.2.0 h7e041cc_3 conda-forge
libuv 1.46.0 hd590300_0 conda-forge
libxml2 2.11.6 h232c23b_0 conda-forge
libzlib 1.2.13 hd590300_5 conda-forge
mpi 1.0 openmpi conda-forge
ncurses 6.4 h59595ed_2 conda-forge
openmpi 5.0.1 hb0ee255_100 conda-forge
openmpi-mpicxx 5.0.1 h00ab1b0_100 conda-forge
openssl 3.2.0 hd590300_1 conda-forge
pkg-config 0.29.2 h36c2ea0_1008 conda-forge
rhash 1.4.4 hd590300_0 conda-forge
sysroot_linux-64 2.12 he073ed8_16 conda-forge
xz 5.2.6 h166bdaf_0 conda-forge
zstd 1.5.5 hfc55251_0 conda-forgeEnvironment info
active environment : openmpi_test
active env location : /home/rmaynard/miniconda3/envs/openmpi_test
shell level : 1
user config file : /home/rmaynard/.condarc
populated config files : /home/rmaynard/.condarc
conda version : 23.9.0
conda-build version : 3.27.0
python version : 3.11.4.final.0
virtual packages : __archspec=1=x86_64
__cuda=12.0=0
__glibc=2.31=0
__linux=5.4.0=0
__unix=0=0
base environment : /home/rmaynard/miniconda3 (writable)
conda av data dir : /home/rmaynard/miniconda3/etc/conda
conda av metadata url : None
channel URLs : https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/linux-64
https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/noarch
https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/main/linux-64
https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/main/noarch
https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/r/linux-64
https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/r/noarch
package cache : /home/rmaynard/miniconda3/pkgs
/home/rmaynard/.conda/pkgs
envs directories : /home/rmaynard/miniconda3/envs
/home/rmaynard/.conda/envs
platform : linux-64
user-agent : conda/23.9.0 requests/2.31.0 CPython/3.11.4 Linux/5.4.0-169-generic ubuntu/20.04.6 glibc/2.31 solver/libmamba conda-libmamba-solver/23.7.0 libmambapy/1.4.1
UID:GID : 1000:1000
netrc file : None
offline mode : False