Bug#824541: gmsh: please enable MPI again for architectures where possible

[Graham Inggs]

Source: gmsh
Version: 2.12.0+dfsg1-2
Severity: wishlist

Hi Maintainer

In gmsh 2.5.1~beta2~svn12143~dfsg-2, MPI was disabled for certain 
architectures with the following line in debian/changelog:

   * [97cda71] Disable MPI on armel, armhf, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386,
               mips and mipsel. Hopefully will fix FTBFS on those platforms.

In Ubuntu, MPI was enabled again in 2.8.3+dfsg-4ubuntu1 on December 23, 
2013 and they have been carrying the delta ever since.
A recent gmsh armfh build log from Ubuntu can be found here [1]. Please 
consider enabling MPI again, at least for armhf, but possibly for the 
other architectures as well.

Another wishlist item, which I don't feel is worth a separate bug 
report; 'OMPI_MCA_orte_rsh_agent' has been deprecated and should be 
changed to 'OMPI_MCA_plm_rsh_agent' in debian/rules.

Regards
Graham


[1] 
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gmsh/2.12.0+dfsg1-2ubuntu1/+build/9747324