On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 01:23:56PM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Mathieu Malaterre <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 11:04 PM, Michael Banck <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The 1.6 release of openmpi fails badly on ia64, see Bug #720419. As no > >> solution appears to be forthcoming, maybe the best would be to remove > >> ia64 from openmpi's arch list and switch to mpich2 as default > >> implementation for mpi-default-{bin,dev}? > > > > Why bother ? Itanium support is being dropped. At least this what I > > understood from a RM request on my of my package: > > > > http://bugs.debian.org/727600 > > Sorry misread the bug description, it only applied to upstream Mono. I > got confused with the recent mail from Niels [*], where no porter for > ia64 showed up. > > Anyone knows what's the actual status of Itanium then ?
Well, chances are ia64 will be dropped for jessie, but waiting for this is not a solution for the openmpi 1.6 transition, which is taking place right now and is being held up by 1.6 not working on ia64. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
