[Pkg-openmpi-maintainers] Bug#551708: openmpi-bin: Please add support to build with alternative compilers

[Robert LeBlanc]

Package: openmpi-bin
Version: 1.3.3-1
Severity: wishlist

Please add support to build the openmpi package using alternative compilers such as Intel and Portland in such a way that these packages can be installed together and do not confilct. It would also be great to set a default mpicc, etc using alternatives as well. This would be very helpful for cluster maintainers who use different compilers for different applications.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages openmpi-bin depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.9-25     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1                       1:4.4.1-4  GCC support library
ii  libopenmpi1.3                 1.3.3-1    high performance message passing l
ii  libstdc++6                    4.4.1-4    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  openmpi-common                1.3.3-1    high performance message passing l

openmpi-bin recommends no packages.

Versions of packages openmpi-bin suggests:
pn  gfortran                      <none>     (no description available)

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