On Nov 18, 2004, at 3:38 AM, Pierre Valiron wrote:
>> 1. If Open MPI uses a build system that requires extra tools (such as
>> cmake or jam or ...) to be installed in order to be built from
>> source, would this be a deterrent to you installing Open MPI from a
>> source tarball?
>
> I have no experience of these extra tools. They may be offered by some
> Linux distributions (?) however they are not commonly available on
> production platforms (IBM, SGI, Solaris, IA64...). So I return
> another question:
These tools will not be available by default on most platforms; I don't
think they're even included in many (any?) Linux distros. So they
would almost certainly have to be downloaded and installed on most
systems.
> Are these tools very easy to build from source on various platforms
> with no root access ? The "no root" is important on production sites
> (regional or national computing centers).
Yes, "no root" is certainly an option (I have my own personal install
of cmake under my $HOME, for example).
Many thanks for this input, and the others who have posted so far --
keep 'em coming!
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