Hi Helmut, Thanks a lot for your prompt response.
Am Mon, Dec 08, 2025 at 12:01:27PM +0100 schrieb Helmut Grohne: > > The build passes without the patch. > > Thank you for looking into my patch. I love to look into your patches since I'd like to support your effort. ;-) > I realize that my instructions for > applying it were not sufficiently clear and that the error message given > by autoconf is not helpful. > > What it really wants to tell you here is that the definition of the > PKG_CHECK_MODULES macro was not found, because the package pkgconf has > not been added to Build-Depends. Regardless of whether pkgconf ends up > being used for discovering mpi-c, it is needed by autoconf to > interpolate the macro now. > > It works once you add pkgconf to Build-Depends. Don't bother trying to > cross build it though, because something else broke on the openmpi side > in the mean time. Ahhh, I should have considered this myself. I uploaded anyway so in case you might be interested to fix the new problem you can base your work on the latest status. Kind regards Andreas. -- https://fam-tille.de

