scalapack 2.0.2 in experimental seems to build well enough on mips64el. But there are 2 kinds of errors thrown during tests from dh_auto_test (the build-openmpi tests are the important ones, since they all pass on other linux arches. build-mpich fails some tests on all arches).
Some tests trigger a segfault (in the most recent build it happens while running build-openmpi/TESTING/xsdblu and .../xdhrd). These kinds of SegFaults have been happening regularly but inconsistently, with a different test executable segfaulting in each build (5 build logs now available in -1exp2 to -1exp6). Running by hand on a porterbox, the tests pass individually. Test 92 (build-openmpi/TESTING/xdsyevr) fails consistently in later builds (in earlier builds it times out ). The error message is: [eberlin:11107] *** An error occurred in MPI_Recv [eberlin:11107] *** reported by process [18446744073674162177,0] [eberlin:11107] *** on communicator MPI COMMUNICATOR 8 DUP FROM 7 [eberlin:11107] *** MPI_ERR_RANK: invalid rank [eberlin:11107] *** MPI_ERRORS_ARE_FATAL (processes in this communicator will now abort, [eberlin:11107] *** and potentially your MPI job) Is there anything different about mips64el that might trigger this kind of error (the test passes on other linux arches) ? Drew [1] https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=scalapack&suite=expe rimental