On Jan 30, 2013, at 7:36 AM, Siegmar Gross 
<siegmar.gr...@informatik.hs-fulda.de> wrote:

> HiI have no problem with the option --enable-heterogeneous, when I build
> Open MPI, but Open MPI will not work in a heterogeneous environment
> with little and big endian machines,

Right -- that's the issue: --enable-heterogeneous is broken (and has been for a 
long time).  No one has stepped up to fix it, so we might as well disable the 
option so that users don't think that we support it.

> while LAM MPI can handle such
> environments. You wanted to solve this problem.
> 
> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/3430

Understood.  But the reality is that this is a very uncommon feature, and we 
apparently don't have the resources to fix it.  :-\

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