[Pkg-openmpi-maintainers] [OMPI devel] Build failures of 1.2.3 on Debian hppa, mips, mipsel, s390, m68k

[Craig Prescott]

Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> Hi Brian,
>
> On 14 July 2007 at 10:47, Brian Barrett wrote:
> | On Jul 14, 2007, at 8:26 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> | 
> | > Please let us (ie Debian's openmpi maintainers) how else we can  
> | > help.  I am
> | > ccing the porters lists (for hppa, m68k, mips) too to invite them  
> | > to help. I
> | > hope that doesn't get the spam filters going...  I may contact the  
> | > 'arm'
> | > porters once we have a failure; s390 and sparc activity are not as  
> | > big these
> | > days.
> | 
> | Open MPI uses some assembly for things like atomic locks, atomic  
> | compare and swap, memory barriers, and the like.  We currently have  
> | support for:
> | 
> |    * x86 (32 bit)
> |    * x86_64 / amd64 (32 or 64 bit)
> |    * UltraSparc (v8plus and v9* targets)
> |    * IA64
> |    * PowerPC (32 or 64 bit)
> | 
> | We also have code for:
> | 
> |    * Alpha
> |    * MIPS (32 bit NEW ABI & 64 bit)
> | 
> | This support isn't well tested in a while and it sounds like it  
>
> We'd be glad to help. This has worked well for other project. I think that
> Debian is the quasi-official testbed for xfree.org given all our platforms.
>
> So we can definitely try to get Alpha, Mips, ... up to speed with suitable
> regression tests.
>   

I'm willing help test on alpha.

Cheers,
Craig