[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)
> 
>     Michael> I think that configure/make/make install is a de-facto
>     Michael> standard for software installation from source tarballs.
> 
> Yes, but the "make configure succeed on a system missing a dependency"
> option is far from a de facto standard.  In fact I don't know of any
> packages that have such an option.
> 
> If you want a libmthca tarball and you can't be bothered to install
> libibverbs, what's wrong with http://openib.org/downloads.html?

Sorry, I was replying out of context.
I think the ability to compile packages as a regular user,
and then install them all as root is required by some of our users.

That's why we have all the disable-libcheck flags in configure
e.g. in management.

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