Bug#656189: petsc: Please disable hcp of the mpicc implementation

[Sylvestre Ledru]

Le jeudi 19 janvier 2012 à 08:56 -0500, Adam C Powell IV a écrit :
> On Wed, 2012-01-18 at 10:36 -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> > On Tue, 2012-01-17 at 12:03 +0100, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
> > > Source: petsc
> > > Severity: important
> > > Tags: patch
> > > 
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > It would be nice if you could apply the attached patch.
> > > It disables the search of mpicc as hcp.
> > > For an unclear reason, it fixes the bug #624671.
> > > slepc fails to build under sparc if hcp is used (while mpiCC will work).
> > 
> > I don't understand, slepc 3.2 built just fine on sparc (so I closed
> > 624671).  Is there a spurious package which provides a binary 'hcp'
> > which perhaps PETSc should Build-Conflict with?
> 
> Okay, just checked and found hcp in lam4-dev, should have expected it
> there.  This is now an obsolete problem because mpi-default-dev uses
> mpich2 on non-openmpi architectures.
> 
> Since LAM is deprecated and end-of-life in Debian, can I close this bug
> by adding lam4-dev to PETSc's Build-Conflicts?  People will still be
> able to build using LAM by doing "debian/rules binary", as described in
> README.Debian .
ok, fine with me.

Thanks for digging
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