Hi all,
On 04/08/2016 11:02, Helge Deller wrote: > Hi Mattia, > >> On Thu, Aug 04, 2016 at 09:34:35AM +0200, Helge Deller wrote: >>> mpi-defaults depends on libmpich-dev for the hppa architecture (like m68k >>> and sh4). >>> All other architectures use libopenmpi-dev. >>> Is there a reason for that? >> reason is that at that time openmpi was not available on those >> architecture. > Ok. I assumed that. OpenMPI recently moved to using gcc atomics where available, which means we no longer need to ship patches for each architecture. So I expect OpenMPI to work on all archs before stretch. >> Besides, do we know whether openmpi works correctly on those >> architectures? Since recently we have mpi-testsuite, but as you can see >> the situation is not nice: >> https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=mpi-testsuite > Oops, at least hppa is not more broken than others :-) Note, I'm currently working on OpenMPI 2.0.0 and hoping to get it into Stretch. This will involve a transition: https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/auto-openmpi.html Thanks for pointing to the mpi-testsuite results. I wasn't aware they are do bad. I'll investigate. OpenMPI 1.10.3 is "mostly ok" according to: https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=openmpi&suite=unstable I've openmpi2 in experimental: https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=openmpi&suite=experimental I'm working with upstream and hoping to add symbol versioning, as the regular soname changes are quite problematic. > Currently I've stopped all hppa buildds and plan to upgrade them to gcc6 > before starting them again. And, I've started a test build of boost1.6.1 > to check if the mpi-defaults change will help. I expect a result during > the next few hours. I'll let you know of the outcome. > > Helge > Alastair, as OpenMPI maintainer. -- Alastair McKinstry, <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, https://diaspora.sceal.ie/u/amckinstry Misentropy: doubting that the Universe is becoming more disordered.
