On Apr 27, 2021, at 18:15, Christopher Nielsen wrote:
> [My previous reply looks like it may be stuck in the mailman queue, and/or
> rejected. So re-sending with additional info.]
>
> Well, the investigation is all on me, barring a definitive answer from
> someone more knowledgable.
>
> But after a lot of scouring, I haven’t found anything in the OpenMPI
> documentation - or on the web in-general - that suggests binaries are tied to
> a build machine’s specific hardware.
>
> So what I’m asking is, should we just go ahead and update openmpi-* to
> publish binaries?
We already publish the binaries; the port is just configured not to look for
them. So if you want to test first, and you have a machine with a processor
that's older than the Xeon in the 2009 Xserves we use to build, you could
remove the archive_sites clearing line from the port and try to install the
binary. If openmpi crashes or doesn't work, that would be an indication that we
should not change the port.
