Bug#857692: petsc: FTBFS in !linux

Thu Mar 16 03:01:10 UTC 2017

On Tue, 14 Mar 2017 00:55:39 +0100 Mattia Rizzolo <mattia at debian.org>
wrote:
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> petsc fails to build in hurd-i386, kfreebsd-i386 and kfreebsd-amd64.

The hurd failure looks like the common problem arising from the changes
in PIE handling, see bugs #848129, #854061, same as the FTBFS on other
tier 2 linux architectures.

The kfreebsd failure might need closer scrutiny.

Drew