Let's shift this to the devel mailing list and add it to the Tues telecon. Thanks for clarifying. Sounds to me like the suggestions made below are right - we shouldn't be distributing binary in the main tarball for export reasons. Seems like we have four options:
1. A separate Windows-tool tarball 2. remove flex from the 3-4 places it is used in the code base and replace it with something that doesn't have this requirement. We don't use that much text processing - it may not take that much effort to write our own utility for this purpose. 3. not use the features that are missing from the windows version. 4. even though it changes sometimes, generate the flex-code output and ship it like we used to do Regardless, shipping binary in a source tarball seems like a really bad idea in this age of viral concerns. On Jan 22, 2010, at 3:09 AM, Shiqing Fan wrote: > > Hi, > > flex.exe is not generated at compile time, but flex.exe has to be used to > generate those *flex*.c files during compilation, like show_help_lex.c (a.k.a > the flex-generated code). > > The windows binary of flex on sourceforge doesn't fit the requirement of Open > MPI, it has some missing features. That's why we have to compile a new > flex.exe for Windows, and put it in the source tree. > > > Regards, > Shiqing > > > Ralph Castain wrote: >> Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but if it is generated at -compile- time, then >> how did it get in the 1.4.1 tarball? >> >> >> On Jan 22, 2010, at 1:56 AM, Shiqing Fan wrote: >> >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> No, that's not true, we did ship the flex-generated code a time ago, but as >>> that part of code changes sometimes, we decided to generate it during >>> compilation time, and the flex.exe came with the first support of Windows >>> (CMake). >>> >>> >>> Regards, >>> Shiqing >>> >>> Jeff Squyres wrote: >>> >>>> Don't we ship the flex-generated code in the tarball anyway? If so, why >>>> do we ship flex.exe? >>>> >>>> On Jan 21, 2010, at 12:14 PM, Barrett, Brian W wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> I have to agree with the two requests here. Having either a windows >>>>> tarball or a windows build tools tarball doesn't seem too burdensom, and >>>>> could even be done automatically at make dist time. >>>>> >>>>> Brian >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>>> From: users-boun...@open-mpi.org <users-boun...@open-mpi.org> >>>>> To: us...@open-mpi.org <us...@open-mpi.org> >>>>> Sent: Thu Jan 21 10:05:03 2010 >>>>> Subject: Re: [OMPI users] flex.exe >>>>> >>>>> Am Donnerstag, den 21.01.2010, 11:52 -0500 schrieb Michael Di Domenico: >>>>> >>>>>> openmpi-1.4.1/contrib/platform/win32/bin/flex.exe >>>>>> >>>>>> I understand this file might be required for building on windows, >>>>>> since I'm not I can just delete the file without issue. >>>>>> >>>>>> However, for those of us under import restrictions, where binaries are >>>>>> not allowed in, this file causes me to open the tarball and delete the >>>>>> file (not a big deal, i know, i know). >>>>>> >>>>>> But, can I put up a vote for a pure source only tree? >>>>>> >>>>> I'm very much in favor of that since we can't ship this binary in >>>>> Debian. We'd have to delete it from the tarball and repack it with every >>>>> release which is quite cumbersome. If these tools could be shipped in a >>>>> separate tarball that would be great! >>>>> >>>>> Best regards >>>>> Manuel >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> users mailing list >>>>> us...@open-mpi.org >>>>> http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> users mailing list >>>>> us...@open-mpi.org >>>>> http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> -- >>> -------------------------------------------------------------- >>> Shiqing Fan http://www.hlrs.de/people/fan >>> High Performance Computing Tel.: +49 711 685 87234 >>> Center Stuttgart (HLRS) Fax.: +49 711 685 65832 >>> Address:Allmandring 30 email: f...@hlrs.de 70569 Stuttgart >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> users mailing list >>> us...@open-mpi.org >>> http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users >>> >> >> > > > -- > -------------------------------------------------------------- > Shiqing Fan http://www.hlrs.de/people/fan > High Performance Computing Tel.: +49 711 685 87234 > Center Stuttgart (HLRS) Fax.: +49 711 685 65832 > Address:Allmandring 30 email: f...@hlrs.de 70569 Stuttgart >
