[openfabrics-ewg] On vacation on Sep-13 till 12-Oct

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

Quoting r. Jeff Squyres <jsquyres at cisco.com>:
> Subject: Re: [openfabrics-ewg] On vacation on Sep-13 till 12-Oct
> 
> On 9/17/06 5:46 PM, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst at mellanox.co.il> wrote:
> 
> >> Case in point: I've gone back and forth with one of the GNU Libtool
> >> maintainers for a few months to try to figure out a way to build Open MPI in
> >> this "fake" tree where all the rpath information for OMPI's executables
> >> won't be incorrect in the actual installation tree.  We haven't had success
> >> yet, but are meeting tomorrow to try again...
> > 
> > The issue is not limited to libtool, by the way.
> > Before you release a source package, you are supposed to make dist.
> > 
> > To do make you must run configure, and of course configure
> > fails on dependency check - so again you either install
> > stuff on your build machine, or start doing ugly hacks around
> > autotools/autoconf limitations.
> 
> This is exactly the problem.  Open MPI solely uses autoconf/automake/libtool
> for building on a variety of platforms, and OFED is currently the only
> environment where such ugly hacks are necessary.  So I'm getting resistance
> from the rest of the OMPI group about disrupting the configure/build
> procedure that works everywhere else (but not with OFED because of the way
> OFED chooses to build).
> 
> So "ugly hacks" are not attractive.

Well, here's to hope that autoconf/automake can be fixed to support
building libraries without installing dependencies first.

For now, OFED has to use workarounds.

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MST