Cannot build on arm architecture

[David Sugar]

This package is specifically not supported for arm. There are a limited set of architectures that are supported, and this is because the package uses some architecture specific assembly. While the binary packages list the explicit subset of supported architectures in the control file, there is also a "common" and "doc" package that are currently built for architecture: all, and for this reason a build is attempted from the archive for armel and fails immediately in configure.

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

The package should the GCC builtins, not assembler

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

the package is needed as build dependency for other packages

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

looks like a config error, gcc-4.4 has the primitives

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

raising severity to high, this package is pulled by hdf5, which is pulled into main by
libvigraimpex.

will disable hdf5 in libvigraimpex for maverick. see bug #635891

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

http://www.open-mpi.org/community/lists/devel/2007/07/1896.php

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package openmpi - 1.4.3-1ubuntu2

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openmpi (1.4.3-1ubuntu2) natty; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/arm_support: Initial ARM support.
    - atomic operations via gcc sync builtins.
    - dummy timer
    Fixes armel FTBFS (LP: #438433)
 -- Jani Monoses <email address hidden> Thu, 06 Jan 2011 09:24:32 +0200