[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#855430: examl: FTBFS on non-x86: unrecognized command line option ‘-msse3’

[Alexandros Stamatakis]

Dear Andreas,

> I have packaged examl for Debian

Thank you :-)

> and this is the first bug report the
> package received.  As far as I'm reading the Makefile and docs the
> -msse3 switch is effectively needed in the code.

Yes.

> The only solution I
> see to close this bug report is to not provide the binaries resulting
> from those makefiles that are containing the -msse3 switch on those
> architectures that do not know it.
>
> Could you please confirm this suspicion?

Yes. The reason for this design is that the code is targeted at x86 
based cluster and supercomputing systems which are the most 
common/readily available, hence we do not support any other 
architectures for this code.

> Kind regards and thanks for providing examl as free software

:-) Thanks for thr packaging.

>            Andreas.
>
> PS: If your lab provides other code you consider important for
>     bioinformatics please give me a hint to add it to the Debian
>     package pool as well.

Based on impact I would suggest packaging the following codes:

ExaBayes: https://github.com/aberer/exabayes
RogueNaRok: https://github.com/aberer/RogueNaRok
mPTP: https://github.com/Pas-Kapli/mptp

All the best,

Alexis

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