[openib-general] Re: [PATCH] libmthca: allow make dist without needing to install libibverbs first (option to disable libcheck)

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

Quoting r. Roland Dreier <rdreier at cisco.com>:
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] libmthca: allow make dist without needing to install libibverbs first (option to disable libcheck)
> 
>     Jack> Roland, Please apply this patch ASAP, so that we can do
>     Jack> "make dist" (see userspace/management/diags/configure.in for
>     Jack> an example of how this patch solves the problem).
> 
> Why do you want to do "make dist" anyway?  This seems like a really
> strange configure option ("please allow broken setups"??).

I think that configure/make/make install is a de-facto standard
for software installation from source tarballs.

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