Jeff, Is the autogen changes are public available? I would like to see the code.
Thanks. On Aug 16, 2010, at 10:55 AM, Jeff Squyres wrote: > I just wanted to give the community a heads up that Ralph, Brian, and I are > revamping autogen in a Mercurial branch. I don't know the exact timeline to > completion, but it won't be *too* far in the future. > > We made some core changes, and then made some other changes that necessitated > minor edits to many component Makefile.am's and configure.m4's. So the > overall commit will look *much* bigger than it really is. But it's all good > stuff. :-) > > Here's a list of the intended high-level changes: > > Improvements: > ------------- > 1. "autogen.sh" is now "autogen.pl" (i.e., autogen is now in perl, not Bourne) > --> We can put a sym link in SVN so that the old name still works, if it's > important to people > 2. the project/framework/component discovery is quite a bit faster > 3. the perl code is a LOT easier to maintain (and add features to) > 4. autogen.pl defaults to --no-ompi if ompi/ is not present (which is good > for OPAL+ORTE tarballs) > 5. ompi_mca.m4 has been cleaned up a bit, allowing autogen.pl to be a little > dumber than autogen.sh > 6. vprotocol components now live in ompi/mca/vprotocol (instead of > ompi/mca/pml/v/mca/vprotocol) > 7. a few more "OMPI" name cleanups (e.g., s/ompi/mca/gi and s/ompi/opal/gi > where relevant) > > New features: > ------------- > 1. configure.params won't be necessary for components that have no > configure.m4 and only have a single Makefile.am > 2. configure.params won't be necessary for components that call > AC_CONFIG_FILES themselves in their configure.m4 file > 3. added --enable-mca-only-build=<LIST> option (opposite of > --enable-mca-no-build) > 4. autogen.pl accepts --platform=<filename> argument, just like configure > > Dropped features: > ----------------- > 1. component configure.stub files are no longer supported > 2. component compile-time priorities are no longer supported (or necessary) > 3. SVK is no longer supported > 4. it is not possible to run autogen.pl from a component directory > > -- > Jeff Squyres > jsquy...@cisco.com > For corporate legal information go to: > http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/ > > > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list > de...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/devel
