[openib-general] Re: imgen build

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 10:48, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> Quoting r. Hal Rosenstock <halr at voltaire.com>:
> > Subject: imgen build
> > 
> > Hi Michael,
> > 
> > A couple of build related imgen questions:
> > 
> > 1. How is imgen related to IBADM ?
> > g++ -Wall -W -Werror -g -O2 -MP -MD '-DBLD_VER_STR="devel"'  '-DIBADM_VER_STR=""'  -fno-exceptions   -c -o mic.o mic.cpp
> 
> IBADM also includes imgen.
> The only use of IBADM_VER_STR is for version reporting.

Is it's version tied to IBADM or is this to save a separate version
string ?

> > 2. Should there be a make install for these tools (t2a, mic) ?
> 
> No idea.
> It really does not make sense to install it on all nodes in a cluster,

OK but shouldn't one have the option of installing it or not ?

> and it works fine from any directory.

True.

> What do you think?

I'm ambivalent about this. Anyone else have an opinion ?

-- Hal