Docker images for non-amd64 platforms #41
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FFTW3 fails to compile with Assembler messages: Error: conditional branch out of range
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As espressomd/espresso#2258 required me to create docker images for multiple exotic CPU architectures (specifically i386 and big-endian revealed bugs in Espresso and there is an unsolved one that only happens on 32-bit ARM), I decided to automate the process. It's probably not necessary to put these jobs into CI for every pull request, but maybe we can just run them weekly.
Supporting non-mainstream CPU architectures (i.e. anything other than amd64) is a worthwhile effort as it's a requirement for getting binary packages into Linux distributions. We are not there yet as we'd first need to get rid of the myconfig system, but intend to do so in the future. All of the issues in espressomd/espresso#2258 cropped up while @junghans was preparing OpenSUSE packages.
On arm64, MPI does not currently work (qemu: uncaught target signal 4 (Illegal instruction)in /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libopen-pal.so.20:d53be001 mrs x1, cntfrq_el0). qemu/qemu@26c4a83 is the fix and is included in the recently-released QEMU 3.0.0, but no binaries are available for it yet.