Bug#1135069: mumps: tests fail on hppa

[Drew Parsons]

Source: mumps
Followup-For: Bug #1135069
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-hppa at lists.debian.org
User: debian-hppa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: hppa

I can conditionally get a successful mumps tests run on hppa with some
manuipulation of the lib dir (LD_LIBRARY_PATH) used with the
build-time tests.

That suggests the problem is arising through the complexity of the
MUMPS build system. It is quite archaic, still based directly on make
and using a Makefile.inc fragment to control the various build
options. The destination dir for the libraries is set to ./lib, which
debian/rules the copies to various lib* subdirs for the various
package variants.

I can get a successful test run by just using lib alone, i.e. just
building tests for the last configuration case. That suggests the hppa
build is getting confused about which library configuration is which,
and running tests with the wrong one. Apparently other architectures
don't get the libraries confused like this.

A corollary is that the mpich might be fine on hppa.
The problem here is the complexity of the MUMPS build system running
with different build configurations.