Bug#853029: mpi-default-dev: update mpi defaults for m68k and sh4 to openmpi?

[Mattia Rizzolo]

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On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 11:09:27AM +0800, Drew Parsons wrote:
> This bug report follows on from #833425
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=833425
> 
> openmpi now builds on m68k and sh4.

Yes, also as I reported in that bug report.

> For various reasons it could be convenient if the Debian default
> mpi on these architectures could be updated from mpich to openmpi.
> 
> The specific reason that bothers me is that mpich does not provide
> mpi-fort.pc, while openmpi does.  This prevents mumps from building on
> m68k and sh4 (with blacs-mpi also affected). 

Such change really needs to be ACK by a porter, therefore I'm CCing the
68k and sh lists.

@Porters: Are you fine with changing the default MPI implementation in
sh4 and m68k from MPICH to OpenMPI?

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