Hi Vid,
When ABYSS-P is missing, it means that the `configure` script could not find an OpenMPI library on your system.
Two of the most common reason for this are:
(1) You haven't instead the OpenMPI header files on your system (typically the package is named something like `openmpi-dev`)
(2) You have installed OpenMPI in a non-standard location
In the case of (2), you can supply the `--with-openmpi=<DIRECTORY>` flag to tell `configure` where your OpenMPI library is located. <DIRECTORY> is a directory that contains `include` and `lib` subdirectories underneath it, containing the OpenMPI header files (*.h) and shared library files (*.so.*), respectively.
You can look at the output of the `configure` command to confirm that it was able to find OpenMPI, before recompiling ABySS.
HTH,
- Ben