[Pkg-openmpi-maintainers] Bug#494046: openmpi-bin: Doesn't work in a chroot environment

[Michael Banck]

Hi,

On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 05:34:35PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote:
> I think this bug is really quite important, there are a number of my
> packages where I cannot run the test suite during build because openmpi
> fails instantly in the buildd chroot.  Did somebody test whether the 1.5
> devlopment series fixes this bug?

Thanks to Johannes Ring, I have been made aware of this work-around (see
http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2012/03/msg00005.html):

export OMPI_MCA_plm_rsh_agent=/bin/false

Setting this environment variable makes mpi-based test suites run fine
in a buildd chroot.


Michael