[petsc-dev] NetBSD port

[Kevin.Buckley at ecs.vuw.ac.nz]

> Hopefuly, of course, it won't fail because I'll unearth problems with
> OpenMPI!
>
>
> There are a couple of things I want to try with regard to the NetBSD
> port of OpenMPI, actually things that I had meant to tidy up in the
> wake of the developments on that NetBSD port over the last few weeks.
>
> I do not actually think they affect this issue but you never know
> and if I remove them from the equation, then they certainly can't.
>
> Thanks for the PETSc insight,
> Kevin

Can't recall if I followed up on this in the last few days before
the festive season, but there was an issue with OpenMPI upon the
NetBSD platform.

We came up with a temporary workaround - basically, a different route
through the network interface evaluation code - and have since seen
the target application running, albeit not as well as we expected.
That's another issue though, a thread realting to which I'll be
starting soon!

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