Bug#660259: mpich2: FTBFS: [sparc] missing files

[Samuel Thibault]

Pavan Balaji, le Sun 06 May 2012 12:14:27 -0500, a écrit :
> MPICH2 currently does not support native atomic primitives for gcc/sparc.
> It needs to be built with the emulated atomics,

Mmm, really?

I've dropped sparc from the --with-atomic-primitives=no list, and it
builds fine, and OPA_USE_LOCK_BASED_PRIMITIVES does not seem to be
defined.

> which means that the application needs to be linked with libopa as
> well.  In general, it is good to use pkg-config to see what all
> libraries are required and link with all of them.

Sure, but that's not related with the actual bug here: mpich2 build
itself.

Samuel