MPICH2 is the same project as regular old MPICH. The name was changed when moving to version 3 to reduce future confusion. I'm not sure what feature your application is using, but it should still be there in the latest versions.

Regardless, what I'm trying to say is that while we can help you with problems in the latest few versions, we probably won't be able to help with such old versions.

On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 1:28 PM, Giordano Lipari <giordano_lipari@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
I do have mpich 3.1.2 installed but I specifically installed mpich2 on request of another application that uses it. The version of mpich2 available from the Ubuntu repository is 1.4.1. I actually downloaded my mpchi2 1-5 from http://www.mpich.org/static/downloads/ in the understanding that this is the most recent available (last modified April 2013).

How does this additional information change the picture?

From: Wesley Bland <wbland@anl.gov>
To: Giordano Lipari <giordano_lipari@yahoo.co.uk>; "discuss@mpich.org" <discuss@mpich.org>
Sent: Tuesday, 13 January 2015, 20:15
Subject: Re: [mpich-discuss] mpich2 1.5: failing tests src/mpe2

Have you tried updating to the latest version of MPICH? Our current version is 3.1.3. The version you are using is years old so we'll have a hard time helping you fix any issues.

Thanks,
Wesley

On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 1:13 PM, Giordano Lipari <giordano_lipari@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
I have installed mpchi2-1.5 in my Linux desktop (Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64-bit) with the standard command sequence 

sudo ./configure --prefix=$MOUNTDIR
sudo make
sudo make install
sudo make check

The following 9 tests of the check in src/mpe2 fail:
*** Test C program with the MPI tracing library .......................... No.
*** Test C program with the MPI logging library .......................... No.
*** Test C program with the MPI and manual logging libraries ............. No.
*** Test F77 program with the MPI and manual logging libraries ........... No.
*** Test C program with the MPI animation library ........................ No.
*** Test C program with the X11 graphics library ......................... No.
*** Test F77 program with the X11 graphics library ....................... No.
*** Test C program with the MPI collective/datatype checking library ..... No.
*** Test F77 program with the MPI collective/datatype checking library ... No.

The entire stdout and stderr outputs are enclosed as attachment.
My question is whether this is the regular behaviour and, if not, how I fix this.
Thanks for helping me out!