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+name: CI
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [ master, test_github_actions ]
+    paths-ignore:
+      - '**/*.md'
+      - '**/*.txt'
+      - '**/*.1'
+      - '**/*.jpg'
+      - '**/*.png'
+      - 'docs/*'
+      - 'test/test_installed/*'
+  pull_request:
+    branches: [ master, test_github_actions ]
+    paths-ignore:
+      - '**/*.md'
+      - '**/*.txt'
+      - '**/*.1'
+      - '**/*.jpg'
+      - '**/*.png'
+      - 'docs/*'
+      - 'test/test_installed/*'
+
+env:
+   MPICH_VERSION: 4.3.0
+   OPENMPI_VERSION: 5.0.8
+   AUTOCONF_VERSION: 2.71
+   AUTOMAKE_VERSION: 1.17
+   LIBTOOL_VERSION: 2.5.4
+   M4_VERSION: 1.4.19
+   ADIOS_VERSION: 1.13.1
+
+jobs:
+    mac-mpich-lustre:
+      runs-on: macos-latest
+      timeout-minutes: 120
+      steps:
+        - uses: actions/checkout@8e8c483db84b4bee98b60c0593521ed34d9990e8 # v4
+        - name: Set up dependencies
+          run: |
+            # brew install gcc
+            # which gcc
+            # gcc --version
+            # which gfortran
+        - name: Clean up git untracked files
+          run: |
+            git clean -fx
+        - name: Build GNU autotools
+          run: |
+            export PATH="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS/bin:${PATH}"
+            export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}"
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/m4/m4-${M4_VERSION}.tar.gz
+            gzip -dc m4-${M4_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
+            cd m4-${M4_VERSION}
+            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS \
+                        --silent
+            make -s -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
+            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-${AUTOCONF_VERSION}.tar.gz
+            gzip -dc autoconf-${AUTOCONF_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
+            cd autoconf-${AUTOCONF_VERSION}
+            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS \
+                        --silent
+            make -s -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
+            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-${AUTOMAKE_VERSION}.tar.gz
+            gzip -dc automake-${AUTOMAKE_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
+            cd automake-${AUTOMAKE_VERSION}
+            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS \
+                        --silent
+            make -s -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
+            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-${LIBTOOL_VERSION}.tar.gz
+            gzip -dc libtool-${LIBTOOL_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
+            cd libtool-${LIBTOOL_VERSION}
+            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS \
+                        --silent
+            make -s -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
+            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
+        - name: Build MPICH
+          run: |
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            rm -rf MPICH ; mkdir MPICH ; cd MPICH
+            wget -q https://www.mpich.org/static/downloads/${MPICH_VERSION}/mpich-${MPICH_VERSION}.tar.gz
+            gzip -dc mpich-${MPICH_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
+            cd mpich-${MPICH_VERSION}
+            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/MPICH \
+                        --silent \
+                        --enable-romio \
+                        --with-file-system=ufs \
+                        --with-device=ch3:sock \
+                        --disable-fortran \
+                        CC=gcc
+            make -s LIBTOOLFLAGS=--silent V=1 -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
+            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
+        - name: Build PnetCDF with MIMIC_LUSTRE
+          run: |
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            export PATH="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS/bin:${PATH}"
+            export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}"
+            m4 --version
+            autoconf --version
+            automake --version
+            libtool --version
+            autoreconf -i
+            mkdir -p pnetcdf_output
+            ./configure --enable-option-checking=fatal \
+                        pnc_ac_debug=yes \
+                        --enable-burst_buffering \
+                        --enable-subfiling \
+                        --enable-thread-safe \
+                        --with-pthread \
+                        --disable-fortran \
+                        --with-mpi=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/MPICH \
+                        TESTOUTDIR=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/pnetcdf_output \
+                        MIMIC_LUSTRE=yes
+            make -j 8 tests
+        - name: Print config.log
+          if: ${{ always() }}
+          run: |
+            cat ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/config.log
+        - name: make check
+          run: |
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            make check
+        - name: Print test log files
+          if: ${{ always() }}
+          run: |
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            fname=`find src test examples benchmarks -type f -name "*.log"`
+            for f in $fname ; do \
+               bname=`basename $f` ; \
+               if test "x$bname" != xconfig.log ; then \
+                  echo "-------- dump $f ----------------------------" ; \
+                  cat $f ; \
+               fi ; \
+            done
+        - name: make ptests
+          run: |
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            make ptests
+        - name: make distcheck
+          run: |
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            make -j 8 distcheck DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS="--silent --with-mpi=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/MPICH"
+        - name: make install
+          run: |
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            prefix_path=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/pnetcdf_install
+            echo "---- test make install prefix=${prefix_path}"
+            make install prefix=${prefix_path}
+            test/tst_install.sh ${prefix_path}
+            prefix_path="/pnetcdf_install"
+            destdir_path=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/inst
+            echo "---- test make install prefix=${prefix_path} DESTDIR=${destdir_path}"
+            make install prefix=${prefix_path} DESTDIR=${destdir_path}
+            test/tst_install.sh ${prefix_path} ${destdir_path}
+        - name: Cleanup
+          if: ${{ always() }}
+          run: |
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            make -s distclean
+            rm -rf ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/pnetcdf_output
+            rm -rf ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/MPICH
+            rm -rf ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/pnetcdf_install
+            rm -rf ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/inst
+
+    mac-mpich:
+      runs-on: macos-latest
+      timeout-minutes: 120
+      steps:
+        - uses: actions/checkout@8e8c483db84b4bee98b60c0593521ed34d9990e8 # v4
+        - name: Set up dependencies
+          run: |
+            # brew install gcc
+            # which gcc
+            # gcc --version
+            # which gfortran
+        - name: Clean up git untracked files
+          run: |
+            git clean -fx
+        - name: Build GNU autotools
+          run: |
+            export PATH="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS/bin:${PATH}"
+            export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}"
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/m4/m4-${M4_VERSION}.tar.gz
+            gzip -dc m4-${M4_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
+            cd m4-${M4_VERSION}
+            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS \
+                        --silent
+            make -s -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
+            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-${AUTOCONF_VERSION}.tar.gz
+            gzip -dc autoconf-${AUTOCONF_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
+            cd autoconf-${AUTOCONF_VERSION}
+            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS \
+                        --silent
+            make -s -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
+            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-${AUTOMAKE_VERSION}.tar.gz
+            gzip -dc automake-${AUTOMAKE_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
+            cd automake-${AUTOMAKE_VERSION}
+            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS \
+                        --silent
+            make -s -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
+            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-${LIBTOOL_VERSION}.tar.gz
+            gzip -dc libtool-${LIBTOOL_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
+            cd libtool-${LIBTOOL_VERSION}
+            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS \
+                        --silent
+            make -s -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
+            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
+        - name: Build MPICH
+          run: |
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            rm -rf MPICH ; mkdir MPICH ; cd MPICH
+            wget -q https://www.mpich.org/static/downloads/${MPICH_VERSION}/mpich-${MPICH_VERSION}.tar.gz
+            gzip -dc mpich-${MPICH_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
+            cd mpich-${MPICH_VERSION}
+            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/MPICH \
+                        --silent \
+                        --enable-romio \
+                        --with-file-system=ufs \
+                        --with-device=ch3:sock \
+                        --disable-fortran \
+                        CC=gcc
+            make -s LIBTOOLFLAGS=--silent V=1 -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
+            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
+        - name: Build PnetCDF
+          run: |
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            export PATH="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS/bin:${PATH}"
+            export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}"
+            m4 --version
+            autoconf --version
+            automake --version
+            libtool --version
+            autoreconf -i
+            mkdir -p pnetcdf_output
+            ./configure --enable-option-checking=fatal \
+                        pnc_ac_debug=yes \
+                        --enable-burst_buffering \
+                        --enable-subfiling \
+                        --enable-thread-safe \
+                        --with-pthread \
+                        --disable-fortran \
+                        --with-mpi=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/MPICH \
+                        TESTOUTDIR=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/pnetcdf_output
+            make -j 8 tests
+        - name: Print config.log
+          if: ${{ always() }}
+          run: |
+            cat ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/config.log
+        - name: make check
+          run: |
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            make check
+        - name: Print test log files
+          if: ${{ always() }}
+          run: |
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            fname=`find src test examples benchmarks -type f -name "*.log"`
+            for f in $fname ; do \
+               bname=`basename $f` ; \
+               if test "x$bname" != xconfig.log ; then \
+                  echo "-------- dump $f ----------------------------" ; \
+                  cat $f ; \
+               fi ; \
+            done
+        - name: make ptests
+          run: |
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            make ptests
+        - name: make distcheck
+          run: |
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            make -j 8 distcheck DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS="--silent --with-mpi=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/MPICH"
+        - name: make install
+          run: |
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            prefix_path=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/pnetcdf_install
+            echo "---- test make install prefix=${prefix_path}"
+            make install prefix=${prefix_path}
+            test/tst_install.sh ${prefix_path}
+            prefix_path="/pnetcdf_install"
+            destdir_path=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/inst
+            echo "---- test make install prefix=${prefix_path} DESTDIR=${destdir_path}"
+            make install prefix=${prefix_path} DESTDIR=${destdir_path}
+            test/tst_install.sh ${prefix_path} ${destdir_path}
+        - name: Cleanup
+          if: ${{ always() }}
+          run: |
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            make -s distclean
+            rm -rf ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/pnetcdf_output
+            rm -rf ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/MPICH
+            rm -rf ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/pnetcdf_install
+            rm -rf ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/inst
+
+    mac-openmpi-lustre:
+      runs-on: macos-latest
+      timeout-minutes: 120
+      steps:
+        - uses: actions/checkout@8e8c483db84b4bee98b60c0593521ed34d9990e8 # v4
+        - name: Set up dependencies
+          run: |
+            # brew install gcc
+            # which gcc
+            # gcc --version
+            # which gfortran
+        - name: Clean up git untracked files
+          run: |
+            git clean -fx
+        - name: Build GNU autotools
+          run: |
+            export PATH="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS/bin:${PATH}"
+            export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}"
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/m4/m4-${M4_VERSION}.tar.gz
+            gzip -dc m4-${M4_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
+            cd m4-${M4_VERSION}
+            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS \
+                        --silent
+            make -s -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
+            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-${AUTOCONF_VERSION}.tar.gz
+            gzip -dc autoconf-${AUTOCONF_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
+            cd autoconf-${AUTOCONF_VERSION}
+            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS \
+                        --silent
+            make -s -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
+            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-${AUTOMAKE_VERSION}.tar.gz
+            gzip -dc automake-${AUTOMAKE_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
+            cd automake-${AUTOMAKE_VERSION}
+            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS \
+                        --silent
+            make -s -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
+            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-${LIBTOOL_VERSION}.tar.gz
+            gzip -dc libtool-${LIBTOOL_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
+            cd libtool-${LIBTOOL_VERSION}
+            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS \
+                        --silent
+            make -s -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
+            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
+        - name: Build OPENMPI
+          run: |
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            rm -rf OPENMPI ; mkdir OPENMPI ; cd OPENMPI
+            VER_MAJOR=${OPENMPI_VERSION%.*}
+            wget -q https://download.open-mpi.org/release/open-mpi/v${VER_MAJOR}/openmpi-${OPENMPI_VERSION}.tar.gz
+            gzip -dc openmpi-${OPENMPI_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
+            cd openmpi-${OPENMPI_VERSION}
+            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/OPENMPI \
+                        --silent \
+                        --with-io-romio-flags="--with-file-system=ufs" \
+                        --with-hwloc=internal \
+                        --with-pmix=internal \
+                        --with-libevent=internal \
+                        --disable-mpi-fortran \
+                        CC=gcc
+            make -s LIBTOOLFLAGS=--silent V=1 -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
+            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
+        - name: Build PnetCDF (MIMIC_LUSTRE)
+          run: |
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            export PATH="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS/bin:${PATH}"
+            export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}"
+            m4 --version
+            autoconf --version
+            automake --version
+            libtool --version
+            autoreconf -i
+            mkdir -p pnetcdf_output
+            ./configure --enable-option-checking=fatal \
+                        pnc_ac_debug=yes \
+                        --enable-burst_buffering \
+                        --enable-subfiling \
+                        --enable-thread-safe \
+                        --with-pthread \
+                        --disable-fortran \
+                        --with-mpi=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/OPENMPI \
+                        TESTOUTDIR=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/pnetcdf_output \
+                        MIMIC_LUSTRE=yes
+            make -j 8 tests
+        - name: Print config.log
+          if: ${{ always() }}
+          run: |
+            cat ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/config.log
+        - name: make check
+          run: |
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            make check
+        - name: Print test log files
+          if: ${{ always() }}
+          run: |
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            fname=`find src test examples benchmarks -type f -name "*.log"`
+            for f in $fname ; do \
+               bname=`basename $f` ; \
+               if test "x$bname" != xconfig.log ; then \
+                  echo "-------- dump $f ----------------------------" ; \
+                  cat $f ; \
+               fi ; \
+            done
+        - name: make ptests
+          run: |
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            make ptests
+        - name: make distcheck
+          run: |
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            make -j 8 distcheck DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS="--silent --with-mpi=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/OPENMPI"
+        - name: make install
+          run: |
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            prefix_path=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/pnetcdf_install
+            echo "---- test make install prefix=${prefix_path}"
+            make install prefix=${prefix_path}
+            test/tst_install.sh ${prefix_path}
+            prefix_path="/pnetcdf_install"
+            destdir_path=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/inst
+            echo "---- test make install prefix=${prefix_path} DESTDIR=${destdir_path}"
+            make install prefix=${prefix_path} DESTDIR=${destdir_path}
+            test/tst_install.sh ${prefix_path} ${destdir_path}
+        - name: Cleanup
+          if: ${{ always() }}
+          run: |
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            make -s distclean
+            rm -rf ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/pnetcdf_output
+            rm -rf ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/OPENMPI
+            rm -rf ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/pnetcdf_install
+            rm -rf ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/inst
+
+    mac-openmpi:
+      runs-on: macos-latest
+      timeout-minutes: 120
+      steps:
+        - uses: actions/checkout@8e8c483db84b4bee98b60c0593521ed34d9990e8 # v4
+        - name: Set up dependencies
+          run: |
+            # brew install gcc
+            # which gcc
+            # gcc --version
+            # which gfortran
+        - name: Clean up git untracked files
+          run: |
+            git clean -fx
+        - name: Build GNU autotools
+          run: |
+            export PATH="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS/bin:${PATH}"
+            export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}"
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/m4/m4-${M4_VERSION}.tar.gz
+            gzip -dc m4-${M4_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
+            cd m4-${M4_VERSION}
+            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS \
+                        --silent
+            make -s -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
+            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-${AUTOCONF_VERSION}.tar.gz
+            gzip -dc autoconf-${AUTOCONF_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
+            cd autoconf-${AUTOCONF_VERSION}
+            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS \
+                        --silent
+            make -s -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
+            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-${AUTOMAKE_VERSION}.tar.gz
+            gzip -dc automake-${AUTOMAKE_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
+            cd automake-${AUTOMAKE_VERSION}
+            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS \
+                        --silent
+            make -s -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
+            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-${LIBTOOL_VERSION}.tar.gz
+            gzip -dc libtool-${LIBTOOL_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
+            cd libtool-${LIBTOOL_VERSION}
+            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS \
+                        --silent
+            make -s -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
+            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
+        - name: Build OPENMPI
+          run: |
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            rm -rf OPENMPI ; mkdir OPENMPI ; cd OPENMPI
+            VER_MAJOR=${OPENMPI_VERSION%.*}
+            wget -q https://download.open-mpi.org/release/open-mpi/v${VER_MAJOR}/openmpi-${OPENMPI_VERSION}.tar.gz
+            gzip -dc openmpi-${OPENMPI_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
+            cd openmpi-${OPENMPI_VERSION}
+            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/OPENMPI \
+                        --silent \
+                        --with-io-romio-flags="--with-file-system=ufs" \
+                        --with-hwloc=internal \
+                        --with-pmix=internal \
+                        --with-libevent=internal \
+                        --disable-mpi-fortran \
+                        CC=gcc
+            make -s LIBTOOLFLAGS=--silent V=1 -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
+            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
+        - name: Build PnetCDF
+          run: |
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            export PATH="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS/bin:${PATH}"
+            export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}"
+            m4 --version
+            autoconf --version
+            automake --version
+            libtool --version
+            autoreconf -i
+            mkdir -p pnetcdf_output
+            ./configure --enable-option-checking=fatal \
+                        pnc_ac_debug=yes \
+                        --enable-burst_buffering \
+                        --enable-subfiling \
+                        --enable-thread-safe \
+                        --with-pthread \
+                        --disable-fortran \
+                        --with-mpi=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/OPENMPI \
+                        TESTOUTDIR=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/pnetcdf_output
+            make -j 8 tests
+        - name: Print config.log
+          if: ${{ always() }}
+          run: |
+            cat ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/config.log
+        - name: make check
+          run: |
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            make check
+        - name: Print test log files
+          if: ${{ always() }}
+          run: |
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            fname=`find src test examples benchmarks -type f -name "*.log"`
+            for f in $fname ; do \
+               bname=`basename $f` ; \
+               if test "x$bname" != xconfig.log ; then \
+                  echo "-------- dump $f ----------------------------" ; \
+                  cat $f ; \
+               fi ; \
+            done
+        - name: make ptests
+          run: |
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            make ptests
+        - name: make distcheck
+          run: |
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            make -j 8 distcheck DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS="--silent --with-mpi=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/OPENMPI"
+        - name: make install
+          run: |
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            prefix_path=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/pnetcdf_install
+            echo "---- test make install prefix=${prefix_path}"
+            make install prefix=${prefix_path}
+            test/tst_install.sh ${prefix_path}
+            prefix_path="/pnetcdf_install"
+            destdir_path=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/inst
+            echo "---- test make install prefix=${prefix_path} DESTDIR=${destdir_path}"
+            make install prefix=${prefix_path} DESTDIR=${destdir_path}
+            test/tst_install.sh ${prefix_path} ${destdir_path}
+        - name: Cleanup
+          if: ${{ always() }}
+          run: |
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            make -s distclean
+            rm -rf ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/pnetcdf_output
+            rm -rf ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/OPENMPI
+            rm -rf ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/pnetcdf_install
+            rm -rf ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/inst
+
+    ubuntu-mpich-lustre:
+      runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+      timeout-minutes: 120
+      steps:
+        - uses: actions/checkout@8e8c483db84b4bee98b60c0593521ed34d9990e8 # v4
+        - name: Set up dependencies
+          run: |
+            sudo apt-get update
+            # install gfortran
+            version=12
+            sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test
+            sudo apt-get update
+            sudo apt-get install -y gcc-${version} gfortran-${version}
+            sudo update-alternatives \
+              --install /usr/bin/gcc gcc /usr/bin/gcc-${version} 100 \
+              --slave /usr/bin/gfortran gfortran /usr/bin/gfortran-${version} \
+              --slave /usr/bin/gcov gcov /usr/bin/gcov-${version}
+            echo "---- gcc/gfortran version ------------------------------"
+            which gcc
+            which gfortran
+            gcc --version
+            gfortran --version
+        - name: Clean up git untracked files
+          run: |
+            git clean -fx
+        - name: Build GNU autotools
+          run: |
+            export PATH="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS/bin:${PATH}"
+            export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}"
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/m4/m4-${M4_VERSION}.tar.gz
+            gzip -dc m4-${M4_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
+            cd m4-${M4_VERSION}
+            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS \
+                        --silent
+            make -s -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
+            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-${AUTOCONF_VERSION}.tar.gz
+            gzip -dc autoconf-${AUTOCONF_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
+            cd autoconf-${AUTOCONF_VERSION}
+            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS \
+                        --silent
+            make -s -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
+            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-${AUTOMAKE_VERSION}.tar.gz
+            gzip -dc automake-${AUTOMAKE_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
+            cd automake-${AUTOMAKE_VERSION}
+            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS \
+                        --silent
+            make -s -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
+            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-${LIBTOOL_VERSION}.tar.gz
+            gzip -dc libtool-${LIBTOOL_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
+            cd libtool-${LIBTOOL_VERSION}
+            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS \
+                        --silent
+            make -s -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
+            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
+        - name: Build MPICH
+          run: |
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            echo "Install MPICH ${MPICH_VERSION} in ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/MPICH"
+            rm -rf MPICH ; mkdir MPICH ; cd MPICH
+            # git clone -q https://github.com/pmodels/mpich.git
+            # cd mpich
+            # git submodule update --init
+            # ./autogen.sh
+            wget -q https://www.mpich.org/static/downloads/${MPICH_VERSION}/mpich-${MPICH_VERSION}.tar.gz
+            gzip -dc mpich-${MPICH_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
+            cd mpich-${MPICH_VERSION}
+            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/MPICH \
+                        --silent \
+                        --enable-romio \
+                        --with-file-system=ufs \
+                        --with-device=ch3:sock \
+                        --enable-fortran \
+                        CC=gcc FC=gfortran \
+                        FFLAGS=-fallow-argument-mismatch \
+                        FCFLAGS=-fallow-argument-mismatch
+            make -s LIBTOOLFLAGS=--silent V=1 -j 4 install > qout 2>&1
+            make -s -j 4 distclean >> qout 2>&1
+        - name: Build PnetCDF (MIMIC_LUSTRE)
+          run: |
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            export PATH="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS/bin:${PATH}"
+            export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}"
+            m4 --version
+            autoconf --version
+            automake --version
+            libtool --version
+            autoreconf -i
+            mkdir -p pnetcdf_output
+            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/PnetCDF \
+                        --enable-option-checking=fatal \
+                        pnc_ac_debug=yes \
+                        --enable-burst_buffering \
+                        --enable-subfiling \
+                        --enable-thread-safe \
+                        --with-pthread \
+                        --with-mpi=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/MPICH \
+                        TESTOUTDIR=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/pnetcdf_output \
+                        MIMIC_LUSTRE=yes
+            make -j 8 tests
+        - name: Print config.log
+          if: ${{ always() }}
+          run: |
+            cat ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/config.log
+        - name: make check
+          run: |
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            make check
+        - name: Print test log files
+          if: ${{ always() }}
+          run: |
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            fname=`find src test examples benchmarks -type f -name "*.log"`
+            for f in $fname ; do \
+               bname=`basename $f` ; \
+               if test "x$bname" != xconfig.log ; then \
+                  echo "-------- dump $f ----------------------------" ; \
+                  cat $f ; \
+               fi ; \
+            done
+        - name: make ptests
+          run: |
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            make ptests
+        - name: make distcheck
+          run: |
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            make -j 8 distcheck DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS="--silent --with-mpi=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/MPICH"
+        - name: make install
+          run: |
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            prefix_path=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/pnetcdf_install
+            echo "---- test make install prefix=${prefix_path}"
+            make install prefix=${prefix_path}
+            test/tst_install.sh ${prefix_path}
+            prefix_path="/pnetcdf_install"
+            destdir_path=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/inst
+            echo "---- test make install prefix=${prefix_path} DESTDIR=${destdir_path}"
+            make install prefix=${prefix_path} DESTDIR=${destdir_path}
+            test/tst_install.sh ${prefix_path} ${destdir_path}
+        - name: Cleanup
+          if: ${{ always() }}
+          run: |
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            make -s distclean
+            rm -rf ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/pnetcdf_output
+            rm -rf ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/MPICH
+            rm -rf ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/pnetcdf_install
+            rm -rf ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/inst
+
+    ubuntu-mpich:
+      runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+      timeout-minutes: 120
+      steps:
+        - uses: actions/checkout@8e8c483db84b4bee98b60c0593521ed34d9990e8 # v4
+        - name: Set up dependencies
+          run: |
+            sudo apt-get update
+            # install gfortran
+            version=12
+            sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test
+            sudo apt-get update
+            sudo apt-get install -y gcc-${version} gfortran-${version}
+            sudo update-alternatives \
+              --install /usr/bin/gcc gcc /usr/bin/gcc-${version} 100 \
+              --slave /usr/bin/gfortran gfortran /usr/bin/gfortran-${version} \
+              --slave /usr/bin/gcov gcov /usr/bin/gcov-${version}
+            echo "---- gcc/gfortran version ------------------------------"
+            which gcc
+            which gfortran
+            gcc --version
+            gfortran --version
+        - name: Clean up git untracked files
+          run: |
+            git clean -fx
+        - name: Build GNU autotools
+          run: |
+            export PATH="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS/bin:${PATH}"
+            export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}"
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/m4/m4-${M4_VERSION}.tar.gz
+            gzip -dc m4-${M4_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
+            cd m4-${M4_VERSION}
+            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS \
+                        --silent
+            make -s -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
+            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-${AUTOCONF_VERSION}.tar.gz
+            gzip -dc autoconf-${AUTOCONF_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
+            cd autoconf-${AUTOCONF_VERSION}
+            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS \
+                        --silent
+            make -s -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
+            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-${AUTOMAKE_VERSION}.tar.gz
+            gzip -dc automake-${AUTOMAKE_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
+            cd automake-${AUTOMAKE_VERSION}
+            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS \
+                        --silent
+            make -s -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
+            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-${LIBTOOL_VERSION}.tar.gz
+            gzip -dc libtool-${LIBTOOL_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
+            cd libtool-${LIBTOOL_VERSION}
+            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS \
+                        --silent
+            make -s -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
+            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
+        - name: Build MPICH
+          run: |
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            echo "Install MPICH ${MPICH_VERSION} in ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/MPICH"
+            rm -rf MPICH ; mkdir MPICH ; cd MPICH
+            # git clone -q https://github.com/pmodels/mpich.git
+            # cd mpich
+            # git submodule update --init
+            # ./autogen.sh
+            wget -q https://www.mpich.org/static/downloads/${MPICH_VERSION}/mpich-${MPICH_VERSION}.tar.gz
+            gzip -dc mpich-${MPICH_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
+            cd mpich-${MPICH_VERSION}
+            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/MPICH \
+                        --silent \
+                        --enable-romio \
+                        --with-file-system=ufs \
+                        --with-device=ch3:sock \
+                        --enable-fortran \
+                        CC=gcc FC=gfortran \
+                        FFLAGS=-fallow-argument-mismatch \
+                        FCFLAGS=-fallow-argument-mismatch
+            make -s LIBTOOLFLAGS=--silent V=1 -j 4 install > qout 2>&1
+            make -s -j 4 distclean >> qout 2>&1
+        - name: Build PnetCDF
+          run: |
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            export PATH="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS/bin:${PATH}"
+            export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}"
+            m4 --version
+            autoconf --version
+            automake --version
+            libtool --version
+            autoreconf -i
+            mkdir -p pnetcdf_output
+            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/PnetCDF \
+                        --enable-option-checking=fatal \
+                        pnc_ac_debug=yes \
+                        --enable-burst_buffering \
+                        --enable-subfiling \
+                        --enable-thread-safe \
+                        --with-pthread \
+                        --with-mpi=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/MPICH \
+                        TESTOUTDIR=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/pnetcdf_output
+            make -j 8 tests
+        - name: Print config.log
+          if: ${{ always() }}
+          run: |
+            cat ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/config.log
+        - name: make check
+          run: |
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            make check
+        - name: Print test log files
+          if: ${{ always() }}
+          run: |
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            fname=`find src test examples benchmarks -type f -name "*.log"`
+            for f in $fname ; do \
+               bname=`basename $f` ; \
+               if test "x$bname" != xconfig.log ; then \
+                  echo "-------- dump $f ----------------------------" ; \
+                  cat $f ; \
+               fi ; \
+            done
+        - name: make ptests
+          run: |
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            make ptests
+        - name: make distcheck
+          run: |
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            make -j 8 distcheck DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS="--silent --with-mpi=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/MPICH"
+        - name: make install
+          run: |
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            prefix_path=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/pnetcdf_install
+            echo "---- test make install prefix=${prefix_path}"
+            make install prefix=${prefix_path}
+            test/tst_install.sh ${prefix_path}
+            prefix_path="/pnetcdf_install"
+            destdir_path=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/inst
+            echo "---- test make install prefix=${prefix_path} DESTDIR=${destdir_path}"
+            make install prefix=${prefix_path} DESTDIR=${destdir_path}
+            test/tst_install.sh ${prefix_path} ${destdir_path}
+        - name: Cleanup
+          if: ${{ always() }}
+          run: |
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            make -s distclean
+            rm -rf ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/pnetcdf_output
+            rm -rf ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/MPICH
+            rm -rf ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/pnetcdf_install
+            rm -rf ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/inst
+
+    ubuntu-openmpi-adios:
+      runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+      timeout-minutes: 120
+      steps:
+        - uses: actions/checkout@8e8c483db84b4bee98b60c0593521ed34d9990e8 # v4
+        - name: Set up dependencies
+          run: |
+            sudo apt-get update
+            # install gfortran
+            version=12
+            sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test
+            sudo apt-get update
+            sudo apt-get install -y gcc-${version} gfortran-${version}
+            sudo update-alternatives \
+              --install /usr/bin/gcc gcc /usr/bin/gcc-${version} 100 \
+              --slave /usr/bin/gfortran gfortran /usr/bin/gfortran-${version} \
+              --slave /usr/bin/gcov gcov /usr/bin/gcov-${version}
+            echo "---- gcc/gfortran version ------------------------------"
+            which gcc
+            which gfortran
+            gcc --version
+            gfortran --version
+        - name: Clean up git untracked files
+          run: |
+            git clean -fx
+        - name: Build GNU autotools
+          run: |
+            export PATH="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS/bin:${PATH}"
+            export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}"
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/m4/m4-${M4_VERSION}.tar.gz
+            gzip -dc m4-${M4_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
+            cd m4-${M4_VERSION}
+            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS \
+                        --silent
+            make -s -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
+            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-${AUTOCONF_VERSION}.tar.gz
+            gzip -dc autoconf-${AUTOCONF_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
+            cd autoconf-${AUTOCONF_VERSION}
+            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS \
+                        --silent
+            make -s -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
+            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-${AUTOMAKE_VERSION}.tar.gz
+            gzip -dc automake-${AUTOMAKE_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
+            cd automake-${AUTOMAKE_VERSION}
+            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS \
+                        --silent
+            make -s -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
+            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-${LIBTOOL_VERSION}.tar.gz
+            gzip -dc libtool-${LIBTOOL_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
+            cd libtool-${LIBTOOL_VERSION}
+            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS \
+                        --silent
+            make -s -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
+            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
+        - name: Build OPENMPI
+          run: |
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            echo "Install OPENMPI ${OPENMPI_VERSION} in ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/OPENMPI"
+            rm -rf OPENMPI ; mkdir OPENMPI ; cd OPENMPI
+            VER_MAJOR=${OPENMPI_VERSION%.*}
+            wget -q https://download.open-mpi.org/release/open-mpi/v${VER_MAJOR}/openmpi-${OPENMPI_VERSION}.tar.gz
+            gzip -dc openmpi-${OPENMPI_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
+            cd openmpi-${OPENMPI_VERSION}
+            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/OPENMPI \
+                        --silent \
+                        --with-io-romio-flags="--with-file-system=ufs" \
+                        CC=gcc \
+                        FC=gfortran \
+                        FCFLAGS=-fallow-argument-mismatch
+            make -s LIBTOOLFLAGS=--silent V=1 -j 4 install > qout 2>&1
+            make -s -j 4 distclean >> qout 2>&1
+        - name: Build ADIOS
+          run: |
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            export PATH="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS/bin:${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/OPENMPI/bin:${PATH}"
+            wget -q https://users.nccs.gov/~pnorbert/adios-${ADIOS_VERSION}.tar.gz
+            gzip -dc adios-${ADIOS_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
+            cd adios-${ADIOS_VERSION}
+            #autoreconf -i
+            mkdir build && cd build
+            ../configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/ADIOS \
+                         --with-mpi=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/OPENMPI \
+                         --disable-fortran
+            make -j 4 >> qout 2>&1
+            make -j 4 install >> qout 2>&1
+        - name: Build PnetCDF
+          run: |
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            export PATH="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS/bin:${PATH}"
+            export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}"
+            m4 --version
+            autoconf --version
+            automake --version
+            libtool --version
+            autoreconf -i
+            mkdir -p pnetcdf_output
+            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/PnetCDF \
+                        --enable-option-checking=fatal \
+                        pnc_ac_debug=yes \
+                        --enable-burst_buffering \
+                        --enable-subfiling \
+                        --enable-thread-safe \
+                        --with-pthread \
+                        --with-mpi=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/OPENMPI \
+                        --with-adios=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/ADIOS \
+                        TESTOUTDIR=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/pnetcdf_output
+            make -j 8 tests
+        - name: Print config.log
+          if: ${{ always() }}
+          run: |
+            cat ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/config.log
+        - name: make check
+          run: |
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            make check
+        - name: Print test log files
+          if: ${{ always() }}
+          run: |
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            fname=`find src test examples benchmarks -type f -name "*.log"`
+            for f in $fname ; do \
+               bname=`basename $f` ; \
+               if test "x$bname" != xconfig.log ; then \
+                  echo "-------- dump $f ----------------------------" ; \
+                  cat $f ; \
+               fi ; \
+            done
+        - name: make ptests
+          run: |
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            make ptests
+        - name: make distcheck
+          run: |
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            make -j 8 distcheck DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS="--silent --with-mpi=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/OPENMPI"
+        - name: make install
+          run: |
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            prefix_path=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/pnetcdf_install
+            echo "---- test make install prefix=${prefix_path}"
+            make install prefix=${prefix_path}
+            test/tst_install.sh ${prefix_path}
+            prefix_path="/pnetcdf_install"
+            destdir_path=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/inst
+            echo "---- test make install prefix=${prefix_path} DESTDIR=${destdir_path}"
+            make install prefix=${prefix_path} DESTDIR=${destdir_path}
+            test/tst_install.sh ${prefix_path} ${destdir_path}
+        - name: Cleanup
+          if: ${{ always() }}
+          run: |
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            make -s distclean
+            rm -rf ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/pnetcdf_output
+            rm -rf ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/OPENMPI
+            rm -rf ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/pnetcdf_install
+            rm -rf ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/inst
+
+    ubuntu-openmpi-lustre:
+      runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+      timeout-minutes: 120
+      steps:
+        - uses: actions/checkout@8e8c483db84b4bee98b60c0593521ed34d9990e8 # v4
+        - name: Set up dependencies
+          run: |
+            sudo apt-get update
+            # install gfortran
+            version=12
+            sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test
+            sudo apt-get update
+            sudo apt-get install -y gcc-${version} gfortran-${version}
+            sudo update-alternatives \
+              --install /usr/bin/gcc gcc /usr/bin/gcc-${version} 100 \
+              --slave /usr/bin/gfortran gfortran /usr/bin/gfortran-${version} \
+              --slave /usr/bin/gcov gcov /usr/bin/gcov-${version}
+            echo "---- gcc/gfortran version ------------------------------"
+            which gcc
+            which gfortran
+            gcc --version
+            gfortran --version
+        - name: Clean up git untracked files
+          run: |
+            git clean -fx
+        - name: Build GNU autotools
+          run: |
+            export PATH="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS/bin:${PATH}"
+            export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}"
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/m4/m4-${M4_VERSION}.tar.gz
+            gzip -dc m4-${M4_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
+            cd m4-${M4_VERSION}
+            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS \
+                        --silent
+            make -s -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
+            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-${AUTOCONF_VERSION}.tar.gz
+            gzip -dc autoconf-${AUTOCONF_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
+            cd autoconf-${AUTOCONF_VERSION}
+            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS \
+                        --silent
+            make -s -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
+            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-${AUTOMAKE_VERSION}.tar.gz
+            gzip -dc automake-${AUTOMAKE_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
+            cd automake-${AUTOMAKE_VERSION}
+            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS \
+                        --silent
+            make -s -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
+            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-${LIBTOOL_VERSION}.tar.gz
+            gzip -dc libtool-${LIBTOOL_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
+            cd libtool-${LIBTOOL_VERSION}
+            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS \
+                        --silent
+            make -s -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
+            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
+        - name: Build OPENMPI
+          run: |
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            echo "Install OPENMPI ${OPENMPI_VERSION} in ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/OPENMPI"
+            rm -rf OPENMPI ; mkdir OPENMPI ; cd OPENMPI
+            VER_MAJOR=${OPENMPI_VERSION%.*}
+            wget -q https://download.open-mpi.org/release/open-mpi/v${VER_MAJOR}/openmpi-${OPENMPI_VERSION}.tar.gz
+            gzip -dc openmpi-${OPENMPI_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
+            cd openmpi-${OPENMPI_VERSION}
+            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/OPENMPI \
+                        --silent \
+                        --with-io-romio-flags="--with-file-system=ufs" \
+                        CC=gcc \
+                        FC=gfortran \
+                        FCFLAGS=-fallow-argument-mismatch
+            make -s LIBTOOLFLAGS=--silent V=1 -j 4 install > qout 2>&1
+            make -s -j 4 distclean >> qout 2>&1
+        - name: Build PnetCDF (MIMIC_LUSTRE)
+          run: |
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            export PATH="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS/bin:${PATH}"
+            export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}"
+            m4 --version
+            autoconf --version
+            automake --version
+            libtool --version
+            autoreconf -i
+            mkdir -p pnetcdf_output
+            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/PnetCDF \
+                        --enable-option-checking=fatal \
+                        pnc_ac_debug=yes \
+                        --enable-burst_buffering \
+                        --enable-subfiling \
+                        --enable-thread-safe \
+                        --with-pthread \
+                        --with-mpi=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/OPENMPI \
+                        TESTOUTDIR=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/pnetcdf_output \
+                        MIMIC_LUSTRE=yes
+            make -j 8 tests
+        - name: Print config.log
+          if: ${{ always() }}
+          run: |
+            cat ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/config.log
+        - name: make check
+          run: |
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            make check
+        - name: Print test log files
+          if: ${{ always() }}
+          run: |
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            fname=`find src test examples benchmarks -type f -name "*.log"`
+            for f in $fname ; do \
+               bname=`basename $f` ; \
+               if test "x$bname" != xconfig.log ; then \
+                  echo "-------- dump $f ----------------------------" ; \
+                  cat $f ; \
+               fi ; \
+            done
+        - name: make ptests
+          run: |
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            make ptests
+        - name: make distcheck
+          run: |
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            make -j 8 distcheck DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS="--silent --with-mpi=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/OPENMPI"
+        - name: make install
+          run: |
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            prefix_path=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/pnetcdf_install
+            echo "---- test make install prefix=${prefix_path}"
+            make install prefix=${prefix_path}
+            test/tst_install.sh ${prefix_path}
+            prefix_path="/pnetcdf_install"
+            destdir_path=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/inst
+            echo "---- test make install prefix=${prefix_path} DESTDIR=${destdir_path}"
+            make install prefix=${prefix_path} DESTDIR=${destdir_path}
+            test/tst_install.sh ${prefix_path} ${destdir_path}
+        - name: Cleanup
+          if: ${{ always() }}
+          run: |
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            make -s distclean
+            rm -rf ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/pnetcdf_output
+            rm -rf ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/OPENMPI
+            rm -rf ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/pnetcdf_install
+            rm -rf ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/inst
+
+    ubuntu-openmpi:
+      runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+      timeout-minutes: 120
+      steps:
+        - uses: actions/checkout@8e8c483db84b4bee98b60c0593521ed34d9990e8 # v4
+        - name: Set up dependencies
+          run: |
+            sudo apt-get update
+            # install gfortran
+            version=12
+            sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test
+            sudo apt-get update
+            sudo apt-get install -y gcc-${version} gfortran-${version}
+            sudo update-alternatives \
+              --install /usr/bin/gcc gcc /usr/bin/gcc-${version} 100 \
+              --slave /usr/bin/gfortran gfortran /usr/bin/gfortran-${version} \
+              --slave /usr/bin/gcov gcov /usr/bin/gcov-${version}
+            echo "---- gcc/gfortran version ------------------------------"
+            which gcc
+            which gfortran
+            gcc --version
+            gfortran --version
+        - name: Clean up git untracked files
+          run: |
+            git clean -fx
+        - name: Build GNU autotools
+          run: |
+            export PATH="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS/bin:${PATH}"
+            export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}"
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/m4/m4-${M4_VERSION}.tar.gz
+            gzip -dc m4-${M4_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
+            cd m4-${M4_VERSION}
+            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS \
+                        --silent
+            make -s -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
+            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-${AUTOCONF_VERSION}.tar.gz
+            gzip -dc autoconf-${AUTOCONF_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
+            cd autoconf-${AUTOCONF_VERSION}
+            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS \
+                        --silent
+            make -s -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
+            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-${AUTOMAKE_VERSION}.tar.gz
+            gzip -dc automake-${AUTOMAKE_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
+            cd automake-${AUTOMAKE_VERSION}
+            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS \
+                        --silent
+            make -s -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
+            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-${LIBTOOL_VERSION}.tar.gz
+            gzip -dc libtool-${LIBTOOL_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
+            cd libtool-${LIBTOOL_VERSION}
+            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS \
+                        --silent
+            make -s -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
+            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
+        - name: Build OPENMPI
+          run: |
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            echo "Install OPENMPI ${OPENMPI_VERSION} in ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/OPENMPI"
+            rm -rf OPENMPI ; mkdir OPENMPI ; cd OPENMPI
+            VER_MAJOR=${OPENMPI_VERSION%.*}
+            wget -q https://download.open-mpi.org/release/open-mpi/v${VER_MAJOR}/openmpi-${OPENMPI_VERSION}.tar.gz
+            gzip -dc openmpi-${OPENMPI_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
+            cd openmpi-${OPENMPI_VERSION}
+            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/OPENMPI \
+                        --silent \
+                        --with-io-romio-flags="--with-file-system=ufs" \
+                        CC=gcc \
+                        FC=gfortran \
+                        FCFLAGS=-fallow-argument-mismatch
+            make -s LIBTOOLFLAGS=--silent V=1 -j 4 install > qout 2>&1
+            make -s -j 4 distclean >> qout 2>&1
+        - name: Build PnetCDF
+          run: |
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            export PATH="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS/bin:${PATH}"
+            export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}"
+            m4 --version
+            autoconf --version
+            automake --version
+            libtool --version
+            autoreconf -i
+            mkdir -p pnetcdf_output
+            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/PnetCDF \
+                        --enable-option-checking=fatal \
+                        pnc_ac_debug=yes \
+                        --enable-burst_buffering \
+                        --enable-subfiling \
+                        --enable-thread-safe \
+                        --with-pthread \
+                        --with-mpi=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/OPENMPI \
+                        TESTOUTDIR=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/pnetcdf_output
+            make -j 8 tests
+        - name: Print config.log
+          if: ${{ always() }}
+          run: |
+            cat ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/config.log
+        - name: make check
+          run: |
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            make check
+        - name: Print test log files
+          if: ${{ always() }}
+          run: |
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            fname=`find src test examples benchmarks -type f -name "*.log"`
+            for f in $fname ; do \
+               bname=`basename $f` ; \
+               if test "x$bname" != xconfig.log ; then \
+                  echo "-------- dump $f ----------------------------" ; \
+                  cat $f ; \
+               fi ; \
+            done
+        - name: make ptests
+          run: |
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            make ptests
+        - name: make distcheck
+          run: |
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            make -j 8 distcheck DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS="--silent --with-mpi=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/OPENMPI"
+        - name: make install
+          run: |
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            prefix_path=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/pnetcdf_install
+            echo "---- test make install prefix=${prefix_path}"
+            make install prefix=${prefix_path}
+            test/tst_install.sh ${prefix_path}
+            prefix_path="/pnetcdf_install"
+            destdir_path=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/inst
+            echo "---- test make install prefix=${prefix_path} DESTDIR=${destdir_path}"
+            make install prefix=${prefix_path} DESTDIR=${destdir_path}
+            test/tst_install.sh ${prefix_path} ${destdir_path}
+        - name: Cleanup
+          if: ${{ always() }}
+          run: |
+            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+            make -s distclean
+            rm -rf ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/pnetcdf_output
+            rm -rf ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/OPENMPI
+            rm -rf ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/pnetcdf_install
+            rm -rf ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/inst
diff --git a/.github/workflows/mac_mpich.yml b/.github/workflows/mac_mpich.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 370969d79..000000000
--- a/.github/workflows/mac_mpich.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,169 +0,0 @@
-name: Mac OSX with MPICH
-
-on:
-  push:
-    branches: [ master, test_github_actions ]
-    paths-ignore:
-      - '**/*.md'
-      - '**/*.txt'
-      - '**/*.1'
-      - '**/*.jpg'
-      - '**/*.png'
-      - 'docs/*'
-      - 'test/test_installed/*'
-  pull_request:
-    branches: [ master, test_github_actions ]
-    paths-ignore:
-      - '**/*.md'
-      - '**/*.txt'
-      - '**/*.1'
-      - '**/*.jpg'
-      - '**/*.png'
-      - 'docs/*'
-      - 'test/test_installed/*'
-
-env:
-   MPICH_VERSION: 4.3.0
-   AUTOCONF_VERSION: 2.71
-   AUTOMAKE_VERSION: 1.17
-   LIBTOOL_VERSION: 2.5.4
-   M4_VERSION: 1.4.19
-
-jobs:
-    build:
-      runs-on: macos-latest
-      timeout-minutes: 120
-      steps:
-        - uses: actions/checkout@8e8c483db84b4bee98b60c0593521ed34d9990e8 # v4
-        - name: Set up dependencies
-          run: |
-            # brew install gcc
-            # which gcc
-            # gcc --version
-            # which gfortran
-        - name: Clean up git untracked files
-          run: |
-            git clean -fx
-        - name: Build GNU autotools
-          run: |
-            export PATH="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS/bin:${PATH}"
-            export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}"
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/m4/m4-${M4_VERSION}.tar.gz
-            gzip -dc m4-${M4_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
-            cd m4-${M4_VERSION}
-            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS \
-                        --silent
-            make -s -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
-            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-${AUTOCONF_VERSION}.tar.gz
-            gzip -dc autoconf-${AUTOCONF_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
-            cd autoconf-${AUTOCONF_VERSION}
-            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS \
-                        --silent
-            make -s -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
-            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-${AUTOMAKE_VERSION}.tar.gz
-            gzip -dc automake-${AUTOMAKE_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
-            cd automake-${AUTOMAKE_VERSION}
-            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS \
-                        --silent
-            make -s -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
-            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-${LIBTOOL_VERSION}.tar.gz
-            gzip -dc libtool-${LIBTOOL_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
-            cd libtool-${LIBTOOL_VERSION}
-            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS \
-                        --silent
-            make -s -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
-            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
-        - name: Build MPICH
-          run: |
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            rm -rf MPICH ; mkdir MPICH ; cd MPICH
-            wget -q https://www.mpich.org/static/downloads/${MPICH_VERSION}/mpich-${MPICH_VERSION}.tar.gz
-            gzip -dc mpich-${MPICH_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
-            cd mpich-${MPICH_VERSION}
-            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/MPICH \
-                        --silent \
-                        --enable-romio \
-                        --with-file-system=ufs \
-                        --with-device=ch3:sock \
-                        --disable-fortran \
-                        CC=gcc
-            make -s LIBTOOLFLAGS=--silent V=1 -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
-            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
-        - name: Build PnetCDF
-          run: |
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            export PATH="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS/bin:${PATH}"
-            export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}"
-            m4 --version
-            autoconf --version
-            automake --version
-            libtool --version
-            autoreconf -i
-            mkdir -p pnetcdf_output
-            ./configure --enable-option-checking=fatal \
-                        pnc_ac_debug=yes \
-                        --enable-burst_buffering \
-                        --enable-subfiling \
-                        --enable-thread-safe \
-                        --with-pthread \
-                        --disable-fortran \
-                        --with-mpi=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/MPICH \
-                        TESTOUTDIR=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/pnetcdf_output
-            make -j 8 tests
-        - name: Print config.log
-          if: ${{ always() }}
-          run: |
-            cat ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/config.log
-        - name: make check
-          run: |
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            make check
-        - name: Print test log files
-          if: ${{ always() }}
-          run: |
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            fname=`find src test examples benchmarks -type f -name "*.log"`
-            for f in $fname ; do \
-               bname=`basename $f` ; \
-               if test "x$bname" != xconfig.log ; then \
-                  echo "-------- dump $f ----------------------------" ; \
-                  cat $f ; \
-               fi ; \
-            done
-        - name: make ptests
-          run: |
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            make ptests
-        - name: make distcheck
-          run: |
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            make -j 8 distcheck DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS="--silent --with-mpi=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/MPICH"
-        - name: make install
-          run: |
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            prefix_path=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/pnetcdf_install
-            echo "---- test make install prefix=${prefix_path}"
-            make install prefix=${prefix_path}
-            test/tst_install.sh ${prefix_path}
-            prefix_path="/pnetcdf_install"
-            destdir_path=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/inst
-            echo "---- test make install prefix=${prefix_path} DESTDIR=${destdir_path}"
-            make install prefix=${prefix_path} DESTDIR=${destdir_path}
-            test/tst_install.sh ${prefix_path} ${destdir_path}
-        - name: Cleanup
-          if: ${{ always() }}
-          run: |
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            make -s distclean
-            rm -rf ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/pnetcdf_output
-            rm -rf ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/MPICH
-            rm -rf ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/pnetcdf_install
-            rm -rf ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/inst
-
diff --git a/.github/workflows/mac_mpich_lustre.yml b/.github/workflows/mac_mpich_lustre.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 5b6b00d73..000000000
--- a/.github/workflows/mac_mpich_lustre.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,170 +0,0 @@
-name: Mac OSX with MPICH (MIMIC_LUSTRE)
-
-on:
-  push:
-    branches: [ master, test_github_actions ]
-    paths-ignore:
-      - '**/*.md'
-      - '**/*.txt'
-      - '**/*.1'
-      - '**/*.jpg'
-      - '**/*.png'
-      - 'docs/*'
-      - 'test/test_installed/*'
-  pull_request:
-    branches: [ master, test_github_actions ]
-    paths-ignore:
-      - '**/*.md'
-      - '**/*.txt'
-      - '**/*.1'
-      - '**/*.jpg'
-      - '**/*.png'
-      - 'docs/*'
-      - 'test/test_installed/*'
-
-env:
-   MPICH_VERSION: 4.3.0
-   AUTOCONF_VERSION: 2.71
-   AUTOMAKE_VERSION: 1.17
-   LIBTOOL_VERSION: 2.5.4
-   M4_VERSION: 1.4.19
-
-jobs:
-    build:
-      runs-on: macos-latest
-      timeout-minutes: 120
-      steps:
-        - uses: actions/checkout@8e8c483db84b4bee98b60c0593521ed34d9990e8 # v4
-        - name: Set up dependencies
-          run: |
-            # brew install gcc
-            # which gcc
-            # gcc --version
-            # which gfortran
-        - name: Clean up git untracked files
-          run: |
-            git clean -fx
-        - name: Build GNU autotools
-          run: |
-            export PATH="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS/bin:${PATH}"
-            export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}"
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/m4/m4-${M4_VERSION}.tar.gz
-            gzip -dc m4-${M4_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
-            cd m4-${M4_VERSION}
-            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS \
-                        --silent
-            make -s -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
-            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-${AUTOCONF_VERSION}.tar.gz
-            gzip -dc autoconf-${AUTOCONF_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
-            cd autoconf-${AUTOCONF_VERSION}
-            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS \
-                        --silent
-            make -s -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
-            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-${AUTOMAKE_VERSION}.tar.gz
-            gzip -dc automake-${AUTOMAKE_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
-            cd automake-${AUTOMAKE_VERSION}
-            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS \
-                        --silent
-            make -s -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
-            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-${LIBTOOL_VERSION}.tar.gz
-            gzip -dc libtool-${LIBTOOL_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
-            cd libtool-${LIBTOOL_VERSION}
-            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS \
-                        --silent
-            make -s -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
-            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
-        - name: Build MPICH
-          run: |
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            rm -rf MPICH ; mkdir MPICH ; cd MPICH
-            wget -q https://www.mpich.org/static/downloads/${MPICH_VERSION}/mpich-${MPICH_VERSION}.tar.gz
-            gzip -dc mpich-${MPICH_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
-            cd mpich-${MPICH_VERSION}
-            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/MPICH \
-                        --silent \
-                        --enable-romio \
-                        --with-file-system=ufs \
-                        --with-device=ch3:sock \
-                        --disable-fortran \
-                        CC=gcc
-            make -s LIBTOOLFLAGS=--silent V=1 -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
-            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
-        - name: Build PnetCDF with MIMIC_LUSTRE
-          run: |
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            export PATH="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS/bin:${PATH}"
-            export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}"
-            m4 --version
-            autoconf --version
-            automake --version
-            libtool --version
-            autoreconf -i
-            mkdir -p pnetcdf_output
-            ./configure --enable-option-checking=fatal \
-                        pnc_ac_debug=yes \
-                        --enable-burst_buffering \
-                        --enable-subfiling \
-                        --enable-thread-safe \
-                        --with-pthread \
-                        --disable-fortran \
-                        --with-mpi=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/MPICH \
-                        TESTOUTDIR=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/pnetcdf_output \
-                        MIMIC_LUSTRE=yes
-            make -j 8 tests
-        - name: Print config.log
-          if: ${{ always() }}
-          run: |
-            cat ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/config.log
-        - name: make check
-          run: |
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            make check
-        - name: Print test log files
-          if: ${{ always() }}
-          run: |
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            fname=`find src test examples benchmarks -type f -name "*.log"`
-            for f in $fname ; do \
-               bname=`basename $f` ; \
-               if test "x$bname" != xconfig.log ; then \
-                  echo "-------- dump $f ----------------------------" ; \
-                  cat $f ; \
-               fi ; \
-            done
-        - name: make ptests
-          run: |
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            make ptests
-        - name: make distcheck
-          run: |
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            make -j 8 distcheck DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS="--silent --with-mpi=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/MPICH"
-        - name: make install
-          run: |
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            prefix_path=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/pnetcdf_install
-            echo "---- test make install prefix=${prefix_path}"
-            make install prefix=${prefix_path}
-            test/tst_install.sh ${prefix_path}
-            prefix_path="/pnetcdf_install"
-            destdir_path=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/inst
-            echo "---- test make install prefix=${prefix_path} DESTDIR=${destdir_path}"
-            make install prefix=${prefix_path} DESTDIR=${destdir_path}
-            test/tst_install.sh ${prefix_path} ${destdir_path}
-        - name: Cleanup
-          if: ${{ always() }}
-          run: |
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            make -s distclean
-            rm -rf ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/pnetcdf_output
-            rm -rf ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/MPICH
-            rm -rf ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/pnetcdf_install
-            rm -rf ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/inst
-
diff --git a/.github/workflows/mac_openmpi.yml b/.github/workflows/mac_openmpi.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index ed38ec162..000000000
--- a/.github/workflows/mac_openmpi.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,171 +0,0 @@
-name: Mac OSX with OpenMPI
-
-on:
-  push:
-    branches: [ master, test_github_actions ]
-    paths-ignore:
-      - '**/*.md'
-      - '**/*.txt'
-      - '**/*.1'
-      - '**/*.jpg'
-      - '**/*.png'
-      - 'docs/*'
-      - 'test/test_installed/*'
-  pull_request:
-    branches: [ master, test_github_actions ]
-    paths-ignore:
-      - '**/*.md'
-      - '**/*.txt'
-      - '**/*.1'
-      - '**/*.jpg'
-      - '**/*.png'
-      - 'docs/*'
-      - 'test/test_installed/*'
-
-env:
-   OPENMPI_VERSION: 5.0.8
-   AUTOCONF_VERSION: 2.71
-   AUTOMAKE_VERSION: 1.17
-   LIBTOOL_VERSION: 2.5.4
-   M4_VERSION: 1.4.19
-
-jobs:
-    build:
-      runs-on: macos-latest
-      timeout-minutes: 120
-      steps:
-        - uses: actions/checkout@8e8c483db84b4bee98b60c0593521ed34d9990e8 # v4
-        - name: Set up dependencies
-          run: |
-            # brew install gcc
-            # which gcc
-            # gcc --version
-            # which gfortran
-        - name: Clean up git untracked files
-          run: |
-            git clean -fx
-        - name: Build GNU autotools
-          run: |
-            export PATH="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS/bin:${PATH}"
-            export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}"
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/m4/m4-${M4_VERSION}.tar.gz
-            gzip -dc m4-${M4_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
-            cd m4-${M4_VERSION}
-            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS \
-                        --silent
-            make -s -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
-            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-${AUTOCONF_VERSION}.tar.gz
-            gzip -dc autoconf-${AUTOCONF_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
-            cd autoconf-${AUTOCONF_VERSION}
-            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS \
-                        --silent
-            make -s -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
-            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-${AUTOMAKE_VERSION}.tar.gz
-            gzip -dc automake-${AUTOMAKE_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
-            cd automake-${AUTOMAKE_VERSION}
-            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS \
-                        --silent
-            make -s -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
-            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-${LIBTOOL_VERSION}.tar.gz
-            gzip -dc libtool-${LIBTOOL_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
-            cd libtool-${LIBTOOL_VERSION}
-            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS \
-                        --silent
-            make -s -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
-            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
-        - name: Build OPENMPI
-          run: |
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            rm -rf OPENMPI ; mkdir OPENMPI ; cd OPENMPI
-            VER_MAJOR=${OPENMPI_VERSION%.*}
-            wget -q https://download.open-mpi.org/release/open-mpi/v${VER_MAJOR}/openmpi-${OPENMPI_VERSION}.tar.gz
-            gzip -dc openmpi-${OPENMPI_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
-            cd openmpi-${OPENMPI_VERSION}
-            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/OPENMPI \
-                        --silent \
-                        --with-io-romio-flags="--with-file-system=ufs" \
-                        --with-hwloc=internal \
-                        --with-pmix=internal \
-                        --with-libevent=internal \
-                        --disable-mpi-fortran \
-                        CC=gcc
-            make -s LIBTOOLFLAGS=--silent V=1 -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
-            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
-        - name: Build PnetCDF
-          run: |
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            export PATH="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS/bin:${PATH}"
-            export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}"
-            m4 --version
-            autoconf --version
-            automake --version
-            libtool --version
-            autoreconf -i
-            mkdir -p pnetcdf_output
-            ./configure --enable-option-checking=fatal \
-                        pnc_ac_debug=yes \
-                        --enable-burst_buffering \
-                        --enable-subfiling \
-                        --enable-thread-safe \
-                        --with-pthread \
-                        --disable-fortran \
-                        --with-mpi=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/OPENMPI \
-                        TESTOUTDIR=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/pnetcdf_output
-            make -j 8 tests
-        - name: Print config.log
-          if: ${{ always() }}
-          run: |
-            cat ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/config.log
-        - name: make check
-          run: |
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            make check
-        - name: Print test log files
-          if: ${{ always() }}
-          run: |
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            fname=`find src test examples benchmarks -type f -name "*.log"`
-            for f in $fname ; do \
-               bname=`basename $f` ; \
-               if test "x$bname" != xconfig.log ; then \
-                  echo "-------- dump $f ----------------------------" ; \
-                  cat $f ; \
-               fi ; \
-            done
-        - name: make ptests
-          run: |
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            make ptests
-        - name: make distcheck
-          run: |
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            make -j 8 distcheck DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS="--silent --with-mpi=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/OPENMPI"
-        - name: make install
-          run: |
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            prefix_path=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/pnetcdf_install
-            echo "---- test make install prefix=${prefix_path}"
-            make install prefix=${prefix_path}
-            test/tst_install.sh ${prefix_path}
-            prefix_path="/pnetcdf_install"
-            destdir_path=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/inst
-            echo "---- test make install prefix=${prefix_path} DESTDIR=${destdir_path}"
-            make install prefix=${prefix_path} DESTDIR=${destdir_path}
-            test/tst_install.sh ${prefix_path} ${destdir_path}
-        - name: Cleanup
-          if: ${{ always() }}
-          run: |
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            make -s distclean
-            rm -rf ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/pnetcdf_output
-            rm -rf ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/OPENMPI
-            rm -rf ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/pnetcdf_install
-            rm -rf ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/inst
-
diff --git a/.github/workflows/mac_openmpi_lustre.yml b/.github/workflows/mac_openmpi_lustre.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 90c4c96e6..000000000
--- a/.github/workflows/mac_openmpi_lustre.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,172 +0,0 @@
-name: Mac OSX with OpenMPI (MIMIC_LUSTRE)
-
-on:
-  push:
-    branches: [ master, test_github_actions ]
-    paths-ignore:
-      - '**/*.md'
-      - '**/*.txt'
-      - '**/*.1'
-      - '**/*.jpg'
-      - '**/*.png'
-      - 'docs/*'
-      - 'test/test_installed/*'
-  pull_request:
-    branches: [ master, test_github_actions ]
-    paths-ignore:
-      - '**/*.md'
-      - '**/*.txt'
-      - '**/*.1'
-      - '**/*.jpg'
-      - '**/*.png'
-      - 'docs/*'
-      - 'test/test_installed/*'
-
-env:
-   OPENMPI_VERSION: 5.0.8
-   AUTOCONF_VERSION: 2.71
-   AUTOMAKE_VERSION: 1.17
-   LIBTOOL_VERSION: 2.5.4
-   M4_VERSION: 1.4.19
-
-jobs:
-    build:
-      runs-on: macos-latest
-      timeout-minutes: 120
-      steps:
-        - uses: actions/checkout@8e8c483db84b4bee98b60c0593521ed34d9990e8 # v4
-        - name: Set up dependencies
-          run: |
-            # brew install gcc
-            # which gcc
-            # gcc --version
-            # which gfortran
-        - name: Clean up git untracked files
-          run: |
-            git clean -fx
-        - name: Build GNU autotools
-          run: |
-            export PATH="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS/bin:${PATH}"
-            export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}"
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/m4/m4-${M4_VERSION}.tar.gz
-            gzip -dc m4-${M4_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
-            cd m4-${M4_VERSION}
-            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS \
-                        --silent
-            make -s -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
-            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-${AUTOCONF_VERSION}.tar.gz
-            gzip -dc autoconf-${AUTOCONF_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
-            cd autoconf-${AUTOCONF_VERSION}
-            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS \
-                        --silent
-            make -s -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
-            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-${AUTOMAKE_VERSION}.tar.gz
-            gzip -dc automake-${AUTOMAKE_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
-            cd automake-${AUTOMAKE_VERSION}
-            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS \
-                        --silent
-            make -s -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
-            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-${LIBTOOL_VERSION}.tar.gz
-            gzip -dc libtool-${LIBTOOL_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
-            cd libtool-${LIBTOOL_VERSION}
-            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS \
-                        --silent
-            make -s -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
-            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
-        - name: Build OPENMPI
-          run: |
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            rm -rf OPENMPI ; mkdir OPENMPI ; cd OPENMPI
-            VER_MAJOR=${OPENMPI_VERSION%.*}
-            wget -q https://download.open-mpi.org/release/open-mpi/v${VER_MAJOR}/openmpi-${OPENMPI_VERSION}.tar.gz
-            gzip -dc openmpi-${OPENMPI_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
-            cd openmpi-${OPENMPI_VERSION}
-            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/OPENMPI \
-                        --silent \
-                        --with-io-romio-flags="--with-file-system=ufs" \
-                        --with-hwloc=internal \
-                        --with-pmix=internal \
-                        --with-libevent=internal \
-                        --disable-mpi-fortran \
-                        CC=gcc
-            make -s LIBTOOLFLAGS=--silent V=1 -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
-            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
-        - name: Build PnetCDF (MIMIC_LUSTRE)
-          run: |
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            export PATH="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS/bin:${PATH}"
-            export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}"
-            m4 --version
-            autoconf --version
-            automake --version
-            libtool --version
-            autoreconf -i
-            mkdir -p pnetcdf_output
-            ./configure --enable-option-checking=fatal \
-                        pnc_ac_debug=yes \
-                        --enable-burst_buffering \
-                        --enable-subfiling \
-                        --enable-thread-safe \
-                        --with-pthread \
-                        --disable-fortran \
-                        --with-mpi=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/OPENMPI \
-                        TESTOUTDIR=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/pnetcdf_output \
-                        MIMIC_LUSTRE=yes
-            make -j 8 tests
-        - name: Print config.log
-          if: ${{ always() }}
-          run: |
-            cat ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/config.log
-        - name: make check
-          run: |
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            make check
-        - name: Print test log files
-          if: ${{ always() }}
-          run: |
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            fname=`find src test examples benchmarks -type f -name "*.log"`
-            for f in $fname ; do \
-               bname=`basename $f` ; \
-               if test "x$bname" != xconfig.log ; then \
-                  echo "-------- dump $f ----------------------------" ; \
-                  cat $f ; \
-               fi ; \
-            done
-        - name: make ptests
-          run: |
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            make ptests
-        - name: make distcheck
-          run: |
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            make -j 8 distcheck DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS="--silent --with-mpi=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/OPENMPI"
-        - name: make install
-          run: |
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            prefix_path=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/pnetcdf_install
-            echo "---- test make install prefix=${prefix_path}"
-            make install prefix=${prefix_path}
-            test/tst_install.sh ${prefix_path}
-            prefix_path="/pnetcdf_install"
-            destdir_path=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/inst
-            echo "---- test make install prefix=${prefix_path} DESTDIR=${destdir_path}"
-            make install prefix=${prefix_path} DESTDIR=${destdir_path}
-            test/tst_install.sh ${prefix_path} ${destdir_path}
-        - name: Cleanup
-          if: ${{ always() }}
-          run: |
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            make -s distclean
-            rm -rf ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/pnetcdf_output
-            rm -rf ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/OPENMPI
-            rm -rf ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/pnetcdf_install
-            rm -rf ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/inst
-
diff --git a/.github/workflows/ubuntu_mpich.yml b/.github/workflows/ubuntu_mpich.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index c39a431ec..000000000
--- a/.github/workflows/ubuntu_mpich.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,183 +0,0 @@
-name: ubuntu_mpich
-
-on:
-  push:
-    branches: master
-    paths-ignore:
-      - '**/*.md'
-      - '**/*.txt'
-      - '**/*.1'
-      - 'docs/*'
-      - 'test/test_installed/*'
-  pull_request:
-    branches: master
-    paths-ignore:
-      - '**/*.md'
-      - '**/*.txt'
-      - '**/*.1'
-      - 'docs/*'
-      - 'test/test_installed/*'
-
-env:
-   MPICH_VERSION: 4.3.0
-   AUTOCONF_VERSION: 2.71
-   AUTOMAKE_VERSION: 1.17
-   LIBTOOL_VERSION: 2.5.4
-   M4_VERSION: 1.4.19
-
-jobs:
-    build:
-      runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-      timeout-minutes: 120
-      steps:
-        - uses: actions/checkout@8e8c483db84b4bee98b60c0593521ed34d9990e8 # v4
-        - name: Set up dependencies
-          run: |
-            sudo apt-get update
-            # install gfortran
-            version=12
-            sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test
-            sudo apt-get update
-            sudo apt-get install -y gcc-${version} gfortran-${version}
-            sudo update-alternatives \
-              --install /usr/bin/gcc gcc /usr/bin/gcc-${version} 100 \
-              --slave /usr/bin/gfortran gfortran /usr/bin/gfortran-${version} \
-              --slave /usr/bin/gcov gcov /usr/bin/gcov-${version}
-            echo "---- gcc/gfortran version ------------------------------"
-            which gcc
-            which gfortran
-            gcc --version
-            gfortran --version
-        - name: Clean up git untracked files
-          run: |
-            git clean -fx
-        - name: Build GNU autotools
-          run: |
-            export PATH="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS/bin:${PATH}"
-            export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}"
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/m4/m4-${M4_VERSION}.tar.gz
-            gzip -dc m4-${M4_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
-            cd m4-${M4_VERSION}
-            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS \
-                        --silent
-            make -s -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
-            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-${AUTOCONF_VERSION}.tar.gz
-            gzip -dc autoconf-${AUTOCONF_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
-            cd autoconf-${AUTOCONF_VERSION}
-            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS \
-                        --silent
-            make -s -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
-            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-${AUTOMAKE_VERSION}.tar.gz
-            gzip -dc automake-${AUTOMAKE_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
-            cd automake-${AUTOMAKE_VERSION}
-            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS \
-                        --silent
-            make -s -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
-            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-${LIBTOOL_VERSION}.tar.gz
-            gzip -dc libtool-${LIBTOOL_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
-            cd libtool-${LIBTOOL_VERSION}
-            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS \
-                        --silent
-            make -s -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
-            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
-        - name: Build MPICH
-          run: |
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            echo "Install MPICH ${MPICH_VERSION} in ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/MPICH"
-            rm -rf MPICH ; mkdir MPICH ; cd MPICH
-            # git clone -q https://github.com/pmodels/mpich.git
-            # cd mpich
-            # git submodule update --init
-            # ./autogen.sh
-            wget -q https://www.mpich.org/static/downloads/${MPICH_VERSION}/mpich-${MPICH_VERSION}.tar.gz
-            gzip -dc mpich-${MPICH_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
-            cd mpich-${MPICH_VERSION}
-            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/MPICH \
-                        --silent \
-                        --enable-romio \
-                        --with-file-system=ufs \
-                        --with-device=ch3:sock \
-                        --enable-fortran \
-                        CC=gcc FC=gfortran \
-                        FFLAGS=-fallow-argument-mismatch \
-                        FCFLAGS=-fallow-argument-mismatch
-            make -s LIBTOOLFLAGS=--silent V=1 -j 4 install > qout 2>&1
-            make -s -j 4 distclean >> qout 2>&1
-        - name: Build PnetCDF
-          run: |
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            export PATH="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS/bin:${PATH}"
-            export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}"
-            m4 --version
-            autoconf --version
-            automake --version
-            libtool --version
-            autoreconf -i
-            mkdir -p pnetcdf_output
-            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/PnetCDF \
-                        --enable-option-checking=fatal \
-                        pnc_ac_debug=yes \
-                        --enable-burst_buffering \
-                        --enable-subfiling \
-                        --enable-thread-safe \
-                        --with-pthread \
-                        --with-mpi=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/MPICH \
-                        TESTOUTDIR=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/pnetcdf_output
-            make -j 8 tests
-        - name: Print config.log
-          if: ${{ always() }}
-          run: |
-            cat ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/config.log
-        - name: make check
-          run: |
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            make check
-        - name: Print test log files
-          if: ${{ always() }}
-          run: |
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            fname=`find src test examples benchmarks -type f -name "*.log"`
-            for f in $fname ; do \
-               bname=`basename $f` ; \
-               if test "x$bname" != xconfig.log ; then \
-                  echo "-------- dump $f ----------------------------" ; \
-                  cat $f ; \
-               fi ; \
-            done
-        - name: make ptests
-          run: |
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            make ptests
-        - name: make distcheck
-          run: |
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            make -j 8 distcheck DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS="--silent --with-mpi=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/MPICH"
-        - name: make install
-          run: |
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            prefix_path=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/pnetcdf_install
-            echo "---- test make install prefix=${prefix_path}"
-            make install prefix=${prefix_path}
-            test/tst_install.sh ${prefix_path}
-            prefix_path="/pnetcdf_install"
-            destdir_path=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/inst
-            echo "---- test make install prefix=${prefix_path} DESTDIR=${destdir_path}"
-            make install prefix=${prefix_path} DESTDIR=${destdir_path}
-            test/tst_install.sh ${prefix_path} ${destdir_path}
-        - name: Cleanup
-          if: ${{ always() }}
-          run: |
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            make -s distclean
-            rm -rf ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/pnetcdf_output
-            rm -rf ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/MPICH
-            rm -rf ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/pnetcdf_install
-            rm -rf ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/inst
-
diff --git a/.github/workflows/ubuntu_mpich_lustre.yml b/.github/workflows/ubuntu_mpich_lustre.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index bbf4d8661..000000000
--- a/.github/workflows/ubuntu_mpich_lustre.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,184 +0,0 @@
-name: ubuntu_mpich (MIMIC_LUSTRE)
-
-on:
-  push:
-    branches: master
-    paths-ignore:
-      - '**/*.md'
-      - '**/*.txt'
-      - '**/*.1'
-      - 'docs/*'
-      - 'test/test_installed/*'
-  pull_request:
-    branches: master
-    paths-ignore:
-      - '**/*.md'
-      - '**/*.txt'
-      - '**/*.1'
-      - 'docs/*'
-      - 'test/test_installed/*'
-
-env:
-   MPICH_VERSION: 4.3.0
-   AUTOCONF_VERSION: 2.71
-   AUTOMAKE_VERSION: 1.17
-   LIBTOOL_VERSION: 2.5.4
-   M4_VERSION: 1.4.19
-
-jobs:
-    build:
-      runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-      timeout-minutes: 120
-      steps:
-        - uses: actions/checkout@8e8c483db84b4bee98b60c0593521ed34d9990e8 # v4
-        - name: Set up dependencies
-          run: |
-            sudo apt-get update
-            # install gfortran
-            version=12
-            sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test
-            sudo apt-get update
-            sudo apt-get install -y gcc-${version} gfortran-${version}
-            sudo update-alternatives \
-              --install /usr/bin/gcc gcc /usr/bin/gcc-${version} 100 \
-              --slave /usr/bin/gfortran gfortran /usr/bin/gfortran-${version} \
-              --slave /usr/bin/gcov gcov /usr/bin/gcov-${version}
-            echo "---- gcc/gfortran version ------------------------------"
-            which gcc
-            which gfortran
-            gcc --version
-            gfortran --version
-        - name: Clean up git untracked files
-          run: |
-            git clean -fx
-        - name: Build GNU autotools
-          run: |
-            export PATH="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS/bin:${PATH}"
-            export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}"
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/m4/m4-${M4_VERSION}.tar.gz
-            gzip -dc m4-${M4_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
-            cd m4-${M4_VERSION}
-            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS \
-                        --silent
-            make -s -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
-            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-${AUTOCONF_VERSION}.tar.gz
-            gzip -dc autoconf-${AUTOCONF_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
-            cd autoconf-${AUTOCONF_VERSION}
-            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS \
-                        --silent
-            make -s -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
-            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-${AUTOMAKE_VERSION}.tar.gz
-            gzip -dc automake-${AUTOMAKE_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
-            cd automake-${AUTOMAKE_VERSION}
-            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS \
-                        --silent
-            make -s -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
-            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-${LIBTOOL_VERSION}.tar.gz
-            gzip -dc libtool-${LIBTOOL_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
-            cd libtool-${LIBTOOL_VERSION}
-            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS \
-                        --silent
-            make -s -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
-            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
-        - name: Build MPICH
-          run: |
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            echo "Install MPICH ${MPICH_VERSION} in ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/MPICH"
-            rm -rf MPICH ; mkdir MPICH ; cd MPICH
-            # git clone -q https://github.com/pmodels/mpich.git
-            # cd mpich
-            # git submodule update --init
-            # ./autogen.sh
-            wget -q https://www.mpich.org/static/downloads/${MPICH_VERSION}/mpich-${MPICH_VERSION}.tar.gz
-            gzip -dc mpich-${MPICH_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
-            cd mpich-${MPICH_VERSION}
-            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/MPICH \
-                        --silent \
-                        --enable-romio \
-                        --with-file-system=ufs \
-                        --with-device=ch3:sock \
-                        --enable-fortran \
-                        CC=gcc FC=gfortran \
-                        FFLAGS=-fallow-argument-mismatch \
-                        FCFLAGS=-fallow-argument-mismatch
-            make -s LIBTOOLFLAGS=--silent V=1 -j 4 install > qout 2>&1
-            make -s -j 4 distclean >> qout 2>&1
-        - name: Build PnetCDF (MIMIC_LUSTRE)
-          run: |
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            export PATH="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS/bin:${PATH}"
-            export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}"
-            m4 --version
-            autoconf --version
-            automake --version
-            libtool --version
-            autoreconf -i
-            mkdir -p pnetcdf_output
-            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/PnetCDF \
-                        --enable-option-checking=fatal \
-                        pnc_ac_debug=yes \
-                        --enable-burst_buffering \
-                        --enable-subfiling \
-                        --enable-thread-safe \
-                        --with-pthread \
-                        --with-mpi=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/MPICH \
-                        TESTOUTDIR=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/pnetcdf_output \
-                        MIMIC_LUSTRE=yes
-            make -j 8 tests
-        - name: Print config.log
-          if: ${{ always() }}
-          run: |
-            cat ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/config.log
-        - name: make check
-          run: |
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            make check
-        - name: Print test log files
-          if: ${{ always() }}
-          run: |
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            fname=`find src test examples benchmarks -type f -name "*.log"`
-            for f in $fname ; do \
-               bname=`basename $f` ; \
-               if test "x$bname" != xconfig.log ; then \
-                  echo "-------- dump $f ----------------------------" ; \
-                  cat $f ; \
-               fi ; \
-            done
-        - name: make ptests
-          run: |
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            make ptests
-        - name: make distcheck
-          run: |
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            make -j 8 distcheck DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS="--silent --with-mpi=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/MPICH"
-        - name: make install
-          run: |
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            prefix_path=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/pnetcdf_install
-            echo "---- test make install prefix=${prefix_path}"
-            make install prefix=${prefix_path}
-            test/tst_install.sh ${prefix_path}
-            prefix_path="/pnetcdf_install"
-            destdir_path=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/inst
-            echo "---- test make install prefix=${prefix_path} DESTDIR=${destdir_path}"
-            make install prefix=${prefix_path} DESTDIR=${destdir_path}
-            test/tst_install.sh ${prefix_path} ${destdir_path}
-        - name: Cleanup
-          if: ${{ always() }}
-          run: |
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            make -s distclean
-            rm -rf ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/pnetcdf_output
-            rm -rf ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/MPICH
-            rm -rf ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/pnetcdf_install
-            rm -rf ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/inst
-
diff --git a/.github/workflows/ubuntu_openmpi.yml b/.github/workflows/ubuntu_openmpi.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index f7529974c..000000000
--- a/.github/workflows/ubuntu_openmpi.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,177 +0,0 @@
-name: ubuntu_openmpi
-
-on:
-  push:
-    branches: master
-    paths-ignore:
-      - '**/*.md'
-      - '**/*.txt'
-      - '**/*.1'
-      - 'docs/*'
-      - 'test/test_installed/*'
-  pull_request:
-    branches: master
-    paths-ignore:
-      - '**/*.md'
-      - '**/*.txt'
-      - '**/*.1'
-      - 'docs/*'
-      - 'test/test_installed/*'
-
-env:
-   OPENMPI_VERSION: 5.0.8
-   AUTOCONF_VERSION: 2.71
-   AUTOMAKE_VERSION: 1.17
-   LIBTOOL_VERSION: 2.5.4
-   M4_VERSION: 1.4.19
-
-jobs:
-    build:
-      runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-      timeout-minutes: 120
-      steps:
-        - uses: actions/checkout@8e8c483db84b4bee98b60c0593521ed34d9990e8 # v4
-        - name: Set up dependencies
-          run: |
-            sudo apt-get update
-            # install gfortran
-            version=12
-            sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test
-            sudo apt-get update
-            sudo apt-get install -y gcc-${version} gfortran-${version}
-            sudo update-alternatives \
-              --install /usr/bin/gcc gcc /usr/bin/gcc-${version} 100 \
-              --slave /usr/bin/gfortran gfortran /usr/bin/gfortran-${version} \
-              --slave /usr/bin/gcov gcov /usr/bin/gcov-${version}
-            echo "---- gcc/gfortran version ------------------------------"
-            which gcc
-            which gfortran
-            gcc --version
-            gfortran --version
-        - name: Clean up git untracked files
-          run: |
-            git clean -fx
-        - name: Build GNU autotools
-          run: |
-            export PATH="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS/bin:${PATH}"
-            export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}"
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/m4/m4-${M4_VERSION}.tar.gz
-            gzip -dc m4-${M4_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
-            cd m4-${M4_VERSION}
-            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS \
-                        --silent
-            make -s -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
-            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-${AUTOCONF_VERSION}.tar.gz
-            gzip -dc autoconf-${AUTOCONF_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
-            cd autoconf-${AUTOCONF_VERSION}
-            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS \
-                        --silent
-            make -s -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
-            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-${AUTOMAKE_VERSION}.tar.gz
-            gzip -dc automake-${AUTOMAKE_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
-            cd automake-${AUTOMAKE_VERSION}
-            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS \
-                        --silent
-            make -s -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
-            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-${LIBTOOL_VERSION}.tar.gz
-            gzip -dc libtool-${LIBTOOL_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
-            cd libtool-${LIBTOOL_VERSION}
-            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS \
-                        --silent
-            make -s -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
-            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
-        - name: Build OPENMPI
-          run: |
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            echo "Install OPENMPI ${OPENMPI_VERSION} in ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/OPENMPI"
-            rm -rf OPENMPI ; mkdir OPENMPI ; cd OPENMPI
-            VER_MAJOR=${OPENMPI_VERSION%.*}
-            wget -q https://download.open-mpi.org/release/open-mpi/v${VER_MAJOR}/openmpi-${OPENMPI_VERSION}.tar.gz
-            gzip -dc openmpi-${OPENMPI_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
-            cd openmpi-${OPENMPI_VERSION}
-            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/OPENMPI \
-                        --silent \
-                        --with-io-romio-flags="--with-file-system=ufs" \
-                        CC=gcc \
-                        FC=gfortran \
-                        FCFLAGS=-fallow-argument-mismatch
-            make -s LIBTOOLFLAGS=--silent V=1 -j 4 install > qout 2>&1
-            make -s -j 4 distclean >> qout 2>&1
-        - name: Build PnetCDF
-          run: |
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            export PATH="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS/bin:${PATH}"
-            export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}"
-            m4 --version
-            autoconf --version
-            automake --version
-            libtool --version
-            autoreconf -i
-            mkdir -p pnetcdf_output
-            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/PnetCDF \
-                        --enable-option-checking=fatal \
-                        pnc_ac_debug=yes \
-                        --enable-burst_buffering \
-                        --enable-subfiling \
-                        --enable-thread-safe \
-                        --with-pthread \
-                        --with-mpi=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/OPENMPI \
-                        TESTOUTDIR=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/pnetcdf_output
-            make -j 8 tests
-        - name: Print config.log
-          if: ${{ always() }}
-          run: |
-            cat ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/config.log
-        - name: make check
-          run: |
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            make check
-        - name: Print test log files
-          if: ${{ always() }}
-          run: |
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            fname=`find src test examples benchmarks -type f -name "*.log"`
-            for f in $fname ; do \
-               bname=`basename $f` ; \
-               if test "x$bname" != xconfig.log ; then \
-                  echo "-------- dump $f ----------------------------" ; \
-                  cat $f ; \
-               fi ; \
-            done
-        - name: make ptests
-          run: |
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            make ptests
-        - name: make distcheck
-          run: |
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            make -j 8 distcheck DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS="--silent --with-mpi=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/OPENMPI"
-        - name: make install
-          run: |
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            prefix_path=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/pnetcdf_install
-            echo "---- test make install prefix=${prefix_path}"
-            make install prefix=${prefix_path}
-            test/tst_install.sh ${prefix_path}
-            prefix_path="/pnetcdf_install"
-            destdir_path=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/inst
-            echo "---- test make install prefix=${prefix_path} DESTDIR=${destdir_path}"
-            make install prefix=${prefix_path} DESTDIR=${destdir_path}
-            test/tst_install.sh ${prefix_path} ${destdir_path}
-        - name: Cleanup
-          if: ${{ always() }}
-          run: |
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            make -s distclean
-            rm -rf ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/pnetcdf_output
-            rm -rf ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/OPENMPI
-            rm -rf ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/pnetcdf_install
-            rm -rf ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/inst
-
diff --git a/.github/workflows/ubuntu_openmpi_adios.yml b/.github/workflows/ubuntu_openmpi_adios.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index dfd840c55..000000000
--- a/.github/workflows/ubuntu_openmpi_adios.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,193 +0,0 @@
-name: ubuntu_openmpi_adios
-
-on:
-  push:
-    branches: master
-    paths-ignore:
-      - '**/*.md'
-      - '**/*.txt'
-      - '**/*.1'
-      - 'docs/*'
-      - 'test/test_installed/*'
-  pull_request:
-    branches: master
-    paths-ignore:
-      - '**/*.md'
-      - '**/*.txt'
-      - '**/*.1'
-      - 'docs/*'
-      - 'test/test_installed/*'
-
-env:
-   OPENMPI_VERSION: 5.0.8
-   AUTOCONF_VERSION: 2.71
-   AUTOMAKE_VERSION: 1.17
-   LIBTOOL_VERSION: 2.5.4
-   M4_VERSION: 1.4.19
-   ADIOS_VERSION: 1.13.1
-
-jobs:
-    build:
-      runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-      timeout-minutes: 120
-      steps:
-        - uses: actions/checkout@8e8c483db84b4bee98b60c0593521ed34d9990e8 # v4
-        - name: Set up dependencies
-          run: |
-            sudo apt-get update
-            # install gfortran
-            version=12
-            sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test
-            sudo apt-get update
-            sudo apt-get install -y gcc-${version} gfortran-${version}
-            sudo update-alternatives \
-              --install /usr/bin/gcc gcc /usr/bin/gcc-${version} 100 \
-              --slave /usr/bin/gfortran gfortran /usr/bin/gfortran-${version} \
-              --slave /usr/bin/gcov gcov /usr/bin/gcov-${version}
-            echo "---- gcc/gfortran version ------------------------------"
-            which gcc
-            which gfortran
-            gcc --version
-            gfortran --version
-        - name: Clean up git untracked files
-          run: |
-            git clean -fx
-        - name: Build GNU autotools
-          run: |
-            export PATH="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS/bin:${PATH}"
-            export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}"
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/m4/m4-${M4_VERSION}.tar.gz
-            gzip -dc m4-${M4_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
-            cd m4-${M4_VERSION}
-            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS \
-                        --silent
-            make -s -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
-            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-${AUTOCONF_VERSION}.tar.gz
-            gzip -dc autoconf-${AUTOCONF_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
-            cd autoconf-${AUTOCONF_VERSION}
-            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS \
-                        --silent
-            make -s -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
-            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-${AUTOMAKE_VERSION}.tar.gz
-            gzip -dc automake-${AUTOMAKE_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
-            cd automake-${AUTOMAKE_VERSION}
-            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS \
-                        --silent
-            make -s -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
-            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-${LIBTOOL_VERSION}.tar.gz
-            gzip -dc libtool-${LIBTOOL_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
-            cd libtool-${LIBTOOL_VERSION}
-            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS \
-                        --silent
-            make -s -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
-            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
-        - name: Build OPENMPI
-          run: |
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            echo "Install OPENMPI ${OPENMPI_VERSION} in ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/OPENMPI"
-            rm -rf OPENMPI ; mkdir OPENMPI ; cd OPENMPI
-            VER_MAJOR=${OPENMPI_VERSION%.*}
-            wget -q https://download.open-mpi.org/release/open-mpi/v${VER_MAJOR}/openmpi-${OPENMPI_VERSION}.tar.gz
-            gzip -dc openmpi-${OPENMPI_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
-            cd openmpi-${OPENMPI_VERSION}
-            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/OPENMPI \
-                        --silent \
-                        --with-io-romio-flags="--with-file-system=ufs" \
-                        CC=gcc \
-                        FC=gfortran \
-                        FCFLAGS=-fallow-argument-mismatch
-            make -s LIBTOOLFLAGS=--silent V=1 -j 4 install > qout 2>&1
-            make -s -j 4 distclean >> qout 2>&1
-        - name: Build ADIOS
-          run: |
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            export PATH="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS/bin:${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/OPENMPI/bin:${PATH}"
-            wget -q https://users.nccs.gov/~pnorbert/adios-${ADIOS_VERSION}.tar.gz
-            gzip -dc adios-${ADIOS_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
-            cd adios-${ADIOS_VERSION}
-            #autoreconf -i
-            mkdir build && cd build
-            ../configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/ADIOS \
-                         --with-mpi=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/OPENMPI \
-                         --disable-fortran
-            make -j 4 >> qout 2>&1
-            make -j 4 install >> qout 2>&1
-        - name: Build PnetCDF
-          run: |
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            export PATH="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS/bin:${PATH}"
-            export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}"
-            m4 --version
-            autoconf --version
-            automake --version
-            libtool --version
-            autoreconf -i
-            mkdir -p pnetcdf_output
-            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/PnetCDF \
-                        --enable-option-checking=fatal \
-                        pnc_ac_debug=yes \
-                        --enable-burst_buffering \
-                        --enable-subfiling \
-                        --enable-thread-safe \
-                        --with-pthread \
-                        --with-mpi=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/OPENMPI \
-                        --with-adios=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/ADIOS \
-                        TESTOUTDIR=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/pnetcdf_output
-            make -j 8 tests
-        - name: Print config.log
-          if: ${{ always() }}
-          run: |
-            cat ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/config.log
-        - name: make check
-          run: |
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            make check
-        - name: Print test log files
-          if: ${{ always() }}
-          run: |
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            fname=`find src test examples benchmarks -type f -name "*.log"`
-            for f in $fname ; do \
-               bname=`basename $f` ; \
-               if test "x$bname" != xconfig.log ; then \
-                  echo "-------- dump $f ----------------------------" ; \
-                  cat $f ; \
-               fi ; \
-            done
-        - name: make ptests
-          run: |
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            make ptests
-        - name: make distcheck
-          run: |
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            make -j 8 distcheck DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS="--silent --with-mpi=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/OPENMPI"
-        - name: make install
-          run: |
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            prefix_path=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/pnetcdf_install
-            echo "---- test make install prefix=${prefix_path}"
-            make install prefix=${prefix_path}
-            test/tst_install.sh ${prefix_path}
-            prefix_path="/pnetcdf_install"
-            destdir_path=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/inst
-            echo "---- test make install prefix=${prefix_path} DESTDIR=${destdir_path}"
-            make install prefix=${prefix_path} DESTDIR=${destdir_path}
-            test/tst_install.sh ${prefix_path} ${destdir_path}
-        - name: Cleanup
-          if: ${{ always() }}
-          run: |
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            make -s distclean
-            rm -rf ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/pnetcdf_output
-            rm -rf ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/OPENMPI
-            rm -rf ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/pnetcdf_install
-            rm -rf ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/inst
-
diff --git a/.github/workflows/ubuntu_openmpi_lustre.yml b/.github/workflows/ubuntu_openmpi_lustre.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 2c51b4354..000000000
--- a/.github/workflows/ubuntu_openmpi_lustre.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,178 +0,0 @@
-name: ubuntu_openmpi (MIMIC_LUSTRE)
-
-on:
-  push:
-    branches: master
-    paths-ignore:
-      - '**/*.md'
-      - '**/*.txt'
-      - '**/*.1'
-      - 'docs/*'
-      - 'test/test_installed/*'
-  pull_request:
-    branches: master
-    paths-ignore:
-      - '**/*.md'
-      - '**/*.txt'
-      - '**/*.1'
-      - 'docs/*'
-      - 'test/test_installed/*'
-
-env:
-   OPENMPI_VERSION: 5.0.8
-   AUTOCONF_VERSION: 2.71
-   AUTOMAKE_VERSION: 1.17
-   LIBTOOL_VERSION: 2.5.4
-   M4_VERSION: 1.4.19
-
-jobs:
-    build:
-      runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-      timeout-minutes: 120
-      steps:
-        - uses: actions/checkout@8e8c483db84b4bee98b60c0593521ed34d9990e8 # v4
-        - name: Set up dependencies
-          run: |
-            sudo apt-get update
-            # install gfortran
-            version=12
-            sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test
-            sudo apt-get update
-            sudo apt-get install -y gcc-${version} gfortran-${version}
-            sudo update-alternatives \
-              --install /usr/bin/gcc gcc /usr/bin/gcc-${version} 100 \
-              --slave /usr/bin/gfortran gfortran /usr/bin/gfortran-${version} \
-              --slave /usr/bin/gcov gcov /usr/bin/gcov-${version}
-            echo "---- gcc/gfortran version ------------------------------"
-            which gcc
-            which gfortran
-            gcc --version
-            gfortran --version
-        - name: Clean up git untracked files
-          run: |
-            git clean -fx
-        - name: Build GNU autotools
-          run: |
-            export PATH="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS/bin:${PATH}"
-            export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}"
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/m4/m4-${M4_VERSION}.tar.gz
-            gzip -dc m4-${M4_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
-            cd m4-${M4_VERSION}
-            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS \
-                        --silent
-            make -s -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
-            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-${AUTOCONF_VERSION}.tar.gz
-            gzip -dc autoconf-${AUTOCONF_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
-            cd autoconf-${AUTOCONF_VERSION}
-            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS \
-                        --silent
-            make -s -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
-            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-${AUTOMAKE_VERSION}.tar.gz
-            gzip -dc automake-${AUTOMAKE_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
-            cd automake-${AUTOMAKE_VERSION}
-            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS \
-                        --silent
-            make -s -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
-            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-${LIBTOOL_VERSION}.tar.gz
-            gzip -dc libtool-${LIBTOOL_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
-            cd libtool-${LIBTOOL_VERSION}
-            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS \
-                        --silent
-            make -s -j 8 install > qout 2>&1
-            make -s -j 8 distclean >> qout 2>&1
-        - name: Build OPENMPI
-          run: |
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            echo "Install OPENMPI ${OPENMPI_VERSION} in ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/OPENMPI"
-            rm -rf OPENMPI ; mkdir OPENMPI ; cd OPENMPI
-            VER_MAJOR=${OPENMPI_VERSION%.*}
-            wget -q https://download.open-mpi.org/release/open-mpi/v${VER_MAJOR}/openmpi-${OPENMPI_VERSION}.tar.gz
-            gzip -dc openmpi-${OPENMPI_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -xf -
-            cd openmpi-${OPENMPI_VERSION}
-            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/OPENMPI \
-                        --silent \
-                        --with-io-romio-flags="--with-file-system=ufs" \
-                        CC=gcc \
-                        FC=gfortran \
-                        FCFLAGS=-fallow-argument-mismatch
-            make -s LIBTOOLFLAGS=--silent V=1 -j 4 install > qout 2>&1
-            make -s -j 4 distclean >> qout 2>&1
-        - name: Build PnetCDF (MIMIC_LUSTRE)
-          run: |
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            export PATH="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS/bin:${PATH}"
-            export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/AUTOTOOLS/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}"
-            m4 --version
-            autoconf --version
-            automake --version
-            libtool --version
-            autoreconf -i
-            mkdir -p pnetcdf_output
-            ./configure --prefix=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/PnetCDF \
-                        --enable-option-checking=fatal \
-                        pnc_ac_debug=yes \
-                        --enable-burst_buffering \
-                        --enable-subfiling \
-                        --enable-thread-safe \
-                        --with-pthread \
-                        --with-mpi=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/OPENMPI \
-                        TESTOUTDIR=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/pnetcdf_output \
-                        MIMIC_LUSTRE=yes
-            make -j 8 tests
-        - name: Print config.log
-          if: ${{ always() }}
-          run: |
-            cat ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/config.log
-        - name: make check
-          run: |
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            make check
-        - name: Print test log files
-          if: ${{ always() }}
-          run: |
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            fname=`find src test examples benchmarks -type f -name "*.log"`
-            for f in $fname ; do \
-               bname=`basename $f` ; \
-               if test "x$bname" != xconfig.log ; then \
-                  echo "-------- dump $f ----------------------------" ; \
-                  cat $f ; \
-               fi ; \
-            done
-        - name: make ptests
-          run: |
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            make ptests
-        - name: make distcheck
-          run: |
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            make -j 8 distcheck DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS="--silent --with-mpi=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/OPENMPI"
-        - name: make install
-          run: |
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            prefix_path=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/pnetcdf_install
-            echo "---- test make install prefix=${prefix_path}"
-            make install prefix=${prefix_path}
-            test/tst_install.sh ${prefix_path}
-            prefix_path="/pnetcdf_install"
-            destdir_path=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/inst
-            echo "---- test make install prefix=${prefix_path} DESTDIR=${destdir_path}"
-            make install prefix=${prefix_path} DESTDIR=${destdir_path}
-            test/tst_install.sh ${prefix_path} ${destdir_path}
-        - name: Cleanup
-          if: ${{ always() }}
-          run: |
-            cd ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-            make -s distclean
-            rm -rf ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/pnetcdf_output
-            rm -rf ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/OPENMPI
-            rm -rf ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/pnetcdf_install
-            rm -rf ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/inst
-