Hello, my impression is that quite a few of the packages from scientific computing and bioinformatics fail to build on non-x86 architectures, and maybe even on i686. Presumably, there is not much interest in running such specialised code on less performing hardware.
It would be good if someone with more interest in them could have a look whether this is indeed the case and then propose a supported-platforms patch. Otherwise, we could try to fix the problems. Looking at the debian packages could help determine whether we might obtain arm and mips packages. Thanks in advance, Andreas