diff --git a/systems/mac-arm/config-command-mpi b/systems/mac-arm/config-command-mpi
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+CXX=mpicxx-openmpi-mp CXXFLAGS=-I/opt/local/include/ LDFLAGS=-L/opt/local/lib/ ../../configure --enable-simd=GEN --enable-debug --enable-comms=mpi