Hello all,
I case someone wants to help PLEASE try this on a freshly installed Ubuntu 14.04 (virtual) machine. Do not try this only on your own personal workstation/laptop.
I pushed a version of ubuntu.cfg that lets me compile and run the tests on a stock 14.04 system installing only the packages listed at the very top (build-essential gcc g++ gfortran mpich2 libmpich2?-devel).
I am compiling with the extended list of packages (no boost since the package listed does not exist in 14.04) to see if this also succeeds. Note that this may *still* build some packages even though development files for them are installed since the auto-detect will fail due to multi-arch directories.
This can be added after the release though.
Yours, Roland