Are you saying that you don't link against symbols from that header file -- you only use struct definitions / #defines ? If so, then I would agree -- it's not necessary.
Can you confirm? On Jul 17, 2011, at 9:19 AM, Yevgeny Kliteynik wrote: > Hi Jeff, > > On 14-Jul-11 5:26 PM, Jeff Squyres wrote: >> On Jul 14, 2011, at 10:16 AM, Yevgeny Kliteynik wrote: >> >>> Also, besides checking if compilation works (assuming that I get >>> this file), I have no way checking if linkage also works... >> >> You can AC_LINK_IFELSE to see if the symbols you need are in the libraries. >> >> Er... I'm sorry, I should have noticed this earlier. :-( We usually check >> for types in headers *and* use AC_LINK_IFELSE to ensure that we can actually >> link against those symbols as well. You should add this in the >> ompi_check_openib.m4 testing. > > I'm not sure it's necessary here. > I was talking about Solaris w.r.t. linkage, because I don't know how > IB Management stuff looks there. For Linux, I don't actually do any > linkage - all I need in the header file. If it's there, then I'm OK. > > -- YK -- Jeff Squyres jsquy...@cisco.com For corporate legal information go to: http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/
