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

Fri Oct 25 11:18:36 UTC 2013

On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 11:04 PM, Michael Banck <mbanck at debian.org> wrote:
> 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}?

Why bother ? Itanium support is being dropped. At least this what I
understood from a RM request on my of my package:

http://bugs.debian.org/727600

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