[openib-general] [openfabrics-ewg] OFED 1.1-rc1 is available

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

Quoting r. Hal Rosenstock <halr at voltaire.com>:
> Subject: Re: [openfabrics-ewg] OFED 1.1-rc1 is available
> 
> On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 09:28, Vladimir Sokolovsky wrote:
> > The OFED-1.1-rc1 source tar ball (openib-1.1.tgz ) created by build_ofed.sh script (from https://openib.org/svn/gen2/branches/1.1/ofed/build)
> > 
> > build_ofed.sh script takes userspace libraries/binaries after executing:
> >  
> > autogen.sh
> > configure
> > make dist
> > 
> > Therefor, autogen.sh is not a part of it and also it is the reason 
> > that you see Makefiles there.
> 
> Why shouldn't they be included ? Weren't they included in OFED 1.0 ?

I think that's the way autotools work.
You are *supposed* to do make dist before redistributing the package.

> This makes life difficult for those who want to rebuild based on the
> OFED released sources.

Seems to be the reverse is true - you just run configure/make/make install,
no need to play with autotools which are also broken in interesting ways
on many platforms.

And of course there's always the git/svn branch if you want the pristine
sources.

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