On Nov 17, 2004, at 7:17 PM, Robin Humble wrote:
>> 2. If you answered yes to #1, what kind of system will you want to use
>> Open MPI on? I.e., what [specific] flavor of system (architecture,
>> operating system and version, etc.) would we need to provide a binary
>> version of Open MPI for you to install?
>
> Linux i686, x86_64 and less importantly ia64.
> fedora core 3, redhat 7.3 (argh!), RHEL3
>
> but one .src.rpm will cover all of these...
If cmake/jam/etc. were used, it would still need to be used to rebuild
a src.rpm.
>> As such, we're investigating other build systems, such as cmake and
>> jam. These are fine systems, but they have one critical difference
>> from AC/AM/LT: users who want to build and install Open MPI will have
>> to have cmake/jam/whatever installed. Specifically, before you can
>> build Open MPI from source, you would need to download and install
>> cmake/jam/whatever.
>
> you can't have developers using <whatever> and setup AC/AM/LT for a
> release for the users to use?
We've thought of that, but having 2 separate, parallel configure/build
systems is not attractive. The current AC/AM/LT build system is over
20,000 lines of code. I don't really want to have to maintain/debug
*2* of those.
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{+} Jeff Squyres
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