[Pkg-openmpi-maintainers] Bug#720419: Switching from openmpi to mpich2 on ia64?

[Michael Banck]

Hello,

The 1.6 release of openmpi fails badly on ia64, see Bug #720419.  As no
solution appears to be forthcoming, maybe the best would be to remove
ia64 from openmpi's arch list and switch to mpich2 as default
implementation for mpi-default-{bin,dev}?

I built aces3 on merulo.debian.org with mpich2, and did not encounter
any problem, are there known issues with mpich2 on ia64?


Michael