# XFAIL compiling FreeFEM on a HPC platform

**URL:** https://community.freefem.org/t/xfail-compiling-freefem-on-a-hpc-platform/4220
**Category:** FreeFEM installation
**Created:** [February 14, 2026, 3:39am UTC](https://community.freefem.org/t/xfail-compiling-freefem-on-a-hpc-platform/4220 "2026-02-14T03:39:17Z")
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### Author: ![zxss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/bc8723/32.png) [@zxss](https://community.freefem.org/u/zxss)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2026, 3:39am UTC](https://community.freefem.org/t/xfail-compiling-freefem-on-a-hpc-platform/4220/1 "2026-02-14T03:39:17Z")

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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).

 ![Screenshot 2026-02-14 at 03.34.51](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/freefem/original/2X/3/3171ccc88d3729f7a158c773929fbd4c4a4762fa.jpeg)  
 ![Screenshot 2026-02-14 at 03.35.19](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/freefem/original/2X/0/0fc11f123af4c0618343843fc14ba270bd178d60.jpeg)  
 ![Screenshot 2026-02-14 at 03.35.36](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/freefem/original/2X/6/644018c82739ce286a9fcb751a55ae467d7da25f.jpeg)

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

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### Author: ![zxss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/bc8723/32.png) [@zxss](https://community.freefem.org/u/zxss)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2026, 3:53am UTC](https://community.freefem.org/t/xfail-compiling-freefem-on-a-hpc-platform/4220/2 "2026-02-14T03:53:40Z")

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In addition, there reports error in hpddm directory.

 ![Screenshot 2026-02-14 at 03.53.02](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/freefem/original/2X/7/772a8784d5f00427fa105dfb0013daa3453aa427.jpeg)

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### Author: ![prj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecae2f/32.png) [@prj](https://community.freefem.org/u/prj)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2026, 4:53pm UTC](https://community.freefem.org/t/xfail-compiling-freefem-on-a-hpc-platform/4220/3 "2026-02-14T16:53:10Z")

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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](https://github.com/FreeFem/FreeFem-sources/commit/e78e10f4e18719c42a4a592d00472bee5228aff8) (but you should be able to fix it yourself by doing `autoreconf -i && ./reconfigure`).

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### Author: ![zxss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/bc8723/32.png) [@zxss](https://community.freefem.org/u/zxss)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2026, 7:00pm UTC](https://community.freefem.org/t/xfail-compiling-freefem-on-a-hpc-platform/4220/4 "2026-02-14T19:00:49Z")

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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.

 ![Screenshot 2026-02-14 at 18.59.39](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/freefem/original/2X/2/277640b3d48d2e57c69e742aad4943fe23d5523b.jpeg)