Hello Drew! > 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).
When asking such questions, you should actually put the people responsible for the ports in the loop, otherwise you won't get a qualified answer. As for the question itself, I will have to look into the proposed change first and check the possible ramifications. I won't to avoid breakage because it's usually me who gets to fix it :). Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913