On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 2:43 PM, Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) <jsquy...@cisco.com
> wrote:
> > In addition to the one-line patch below, I needed to run autogen.pl
> with a new enough config/config.{guess,sub}.
> > Along the way I noticed
> > opal/mca/common/libfabric/libfabric/config/config.guess
> > opal/mca/common/libfabric/libfabric/config/config.sub
> > opal/mca/hwloc/hwloc191/hwloc/config/config.guess
> > opal/mca/hwloc/hwloc191/hwloc/config/config.sub
> > which appear to be too old to recognize powerpc64le and are *not*
> updated when autogen.pl is run.
>
> It's ok -- we don't run those scripts during OMPI's top-level configure
> (that's why they're not re-generated during autogen.pl).
OK, makes sense.
I believe the script we use to make official tarballs removes/replaces
> *all* config.sub|guess, just to be completely thorough.
But it's overkill / just being defensive; it isn't technically necessary.
So the script author(s) suffered from the same paranoia I was applying to
the situation. :-)
-Paul
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