Bug#918369: FTBFS for armhf on arm64, fails MPI-based tests

[Steve McIntyre]

On Tue, Jan 08, 2019 at 10:42:01AM +0000, Alastair McKinstry wrote:
>Hi Steve
>
>On 05/01/2019 15:40, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>> Package: src:p4est
>> Version: 1.1-5
>> Severity: important
>> 
>> I've been doing a full rebuild of the Debian archive, building all
>> source packages targeting armel and armhf using arm64 hardware. We are
>> planning in future to move all of our 32-bit armel/armhf builds to
>> using arm64 machines, so this rebuild is to identify packages that
>> might have problems with this configuration.
>> 
>You submitted this and a number of other MPI-test based bugs. I believe they
>may be due to  #918157, a regression in pmix that breaks MPI on 32-bit archs.
>
>I've uploaded a new openmpi (3.1.3-8) that uses its internal pmix until a fix
>is found for #918157, so these should now work. Can you re-test ?

Sure, no problem. I've just queued all those builds to rebuild again
now. I'll let you know how that goes.

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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve at einval.com
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