Document known broken OpenMPI builds #3722
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OpenMPI's
--enable-heterogeneous
build flag is considered deprecated and broken according to OpenMPI:s README and is documented to cause problems on Ubuntu's and debian's bug trackers:https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openmpi/+bug/1731938
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=886336
open-mpi/ompi#171
This PR adds a documentation note to warn about this mentioning distributions which build with this flag.
Feedback on wording very welcome.