Bug#857692: petsc: FTBFS in !linux

[Drew Parsons]

On Thu, 16 Mar 2017 10:28:09 +0100 Mattia Rizzolo <mattia at debian.org>
wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 11:01:10AM +0800, Drew Parsons wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Right, I asked for a give-back, and it seems like it's building fine
> now.
> 
> > The kfreebsd failure might need closer scrutiny.

Looks like kfreebsd is just another PIE victim. Seems to build now just
as well as it was before.  I've requested a give-back.

Drew