Bug#870054: freefem++: scalapack and blacs not found at build time

[Dimitrios Eftaxiopoulos]

Hello Drew,

Thanks for the bug report.

Στις Σάββατο, 29 Ιουλίου 2017 6:13:09 Μ.Μ. EEST γράψατε:
> Source: freefem++
> Version: 3.47+dfsg1-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> blacs is about to be removed from the Debian archives, replaced by
> scalapack2.0 (now in experimental).  So the configuration for the
> freefem++ build will need to be updated to match. configure will need
> to point the blacs library at -lscalapack$ff_with_mpi instead of
> -lblacsCinit$ff_with_mpi, etc.
> 
> Actually there's another problem. Inspecting the current build logs,
> neither blacs nor scalapack (the old versions currently still in
> unstable) are currently being found at build time.  The logs (amd64)
> report:
>     checking check hypre... yes
>     checking check superlu_dist... no
>     checking check superlu... yes
>     checking check superlu4... no
>     checking check blacs... no
>     checking check scalapack... no
>     checking check scotch... no
>     checking check ptscotch... no
>     checking check metis... no
>     checking check metis... yes
>     checking check parmetis... no
> 
> That should be fixed first, then it will be more clear how to
> reconfigure for blacs in scalapack2.0.

I will see what has to be done omce I will try to upload the current (3.56) 
version of freefem++. Upstream have updated the configuration process.

Cheers
Dimitris

> 
> Cheers,
> Drew
> 
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: buster/sid
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
> 
> Kernel: Linux 4.11.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
> LANGUAGE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)