James Cowgill <jcowg...@debian.org> writes: > On 16/01/17 23:58, Boud Roukema wrote: >> Since, in general, there is no reason for mpirun to run as root, >> the sid version of mpirun (from openmpi) apparently refuses to run as root. >> (I have not reproduced this behaviour myself - Ole Streicher >> has warned me about it.) The openmpi developers provide an option >> --allow-run-as-root. > > I'm not sure I follow. Debhelper runs the testsuite during the build > target so it shouldn't be run as root anyway. I don't think you need any > workarounds at all for this.
I (as Bouds sponsor) have the problem that in my cowbuilder the build is done as root, leading to the questioned error message and a failure of the test and the build. Maybe in my setup something is wrong? Best regards Ole
