Bug#651452: illuminator: FTBFS on sparc (tsview-tsview.o: undefined reference to symbol 'lam_mpi_byte')

[Ivo De Decker]

On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 07:45:47PM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> Found the problem.  PETSc built on November 16 with mpi-defaults 0.6
> which depended on LAM on non-openmpi arches.  Now mpi-defaults 1.0.1
> released 12/4 depends on MPICH2, so we have a mix of architectures
> installed.  And mpi-defaults just went into testing today...  Crap!
> 
> It may be that other PETSc dependencies need rebuilding too... and there
> are a lot of them!  Let's see: suitesparse, spooles, hypre, scotch,
> blacs-mpi, scalapack, mumps, all have to be rebuilt with MPICH2!  What
> was built when:
>       * suitesparse: April 15 2010
>       * spooles: May 11 2010
>       * hypre: August 15 2010
>       * scotch: April 6 2011
>       * blacs-mpi: August 29 2011
>       * scalapack: September 18 2011
>       * mumps: March 31 2011
> None was built recently, all need to be rebuilt.  mpi-defaults should
> not be in testing until at least these are rebuilt, probably others.
> 
> Note: HDF5 is not a problem for PETSc because PETSc only links to it on
> OpenMPI platforms.  I forgot why that is, maybe it's worth a try
> building PETSc against HDF5-mpich2?  Maybe later...
> 
> Okay, cloning this bug to a bunch of packages, see above.  I've been an
> uploader to all except blacs-mpi and scalapack, and many of them could
> use some maintenance, this is a good excuse to spend time on them. :-)

Adam,

Is this bug still relevant? All the blocking bugs have been fixed, except
651452, which is about illuminator, which is not in testing.

Cheers,

Ivo