On Sat, 20 Nov 2004, Jeff Squyres wrote:
> Don't forget that being able to rebuild SRPMs is contingent upon being
> able to compile a source tarball. So if cmake is required (for
> example) to build a source tarball, then it will also be required to
> rebuild a SRPM.
Sure. I was however thinking that (if you also provide the cmake/etc.
source tarball), you are only 4 commands away from having Open MPI
installed:
rpmbuild -ta cmake-x.y.z.tar.gz
rpm -ivh /path/to/cmake-x.y.z.arch.rpm
rpmbuild -ta openmpi-x.y.z.tar.gz
rpm -ivh /path/to/openmpi-x.y.z.arch.rpm
> Ah -- are you saying that we should offer distributions of the GNU auto
> tools that are known to work for LAM (for example)?
I was thinking more of other build tools when I wrote that part. For
the auto* tools things are a bit different as they are included with
most Linux distributions, FreeBSD and f.e. even in the "freeware"
collection for IRIX (freeware.sgi.com); the most important part
however is that they can be found prepackaged, which again lowers the
barrier for installation. But if cmake/etc. don't come as easily
prepackaged, they are a requirement for Open MPI and they are not very
portable or have some dependencies, then don't be surprised if people
will go away from Open MPI...
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Bogdan Costescu
IWR - Interdisziplinaeres Zentrum fuer Wissenschaftliches Rechnen
Universitaet Heidelberg, INF 368, D-69120 Heidelberg, GERMANY
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