On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 06:59:35PM -0500, Jeff Squyres wrote:
> SHORT VERSION:
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> 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?
It would not be a deterrent, but annoying.
>
> 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?
Since users need to compile themselves for the use of their compilers,
I never understood the point of binary lam-mpi distributions anyway...
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