XFAIL compiling FreeFEM on a HPC platform

Dear all,

I am trying to install FreeFEM on a HPC platform called Aire. I build a ubuntu 24.04 sandbox firstly and then compile FreeFEM from sources. Everything goes smooth until making check. Some cases show as XFAIL, as shown below (5 in ffddm directory, 3 in mpi directory and 1 in hpddm directory).



Is it accepted or should I reinstall? Has anyone encountered such situation?

In addition, there reports error in hpddm directory.

Does your application work or not? That’s what really matters. I’ve fixed the error in Fix AutoGeneratedFile.tar.gz · FreeFem/FreeFem-sources@e78e10f · GitHub (but you should be able to fix it yourself by doing autoreconf -i && ./reconfigure).

Thank you for your reply.

I find an alternative way to run FreeFEM on HPC cluster aire, that is build docker images firstly and then use apptainer to build .singularity image file and run it.

I have pushed the freefem docker image (v4.15 with PETSC 3.24.4) to docker hub docker://xuanzhao123/freefem:amd64.

I use apptainer to build a singularity image file by

apptainer build freefem.sif docker://xuanzhao123/freefem:amd64

It works well on aire.