Yes, that does feel weird. I've filed
https://github.com/open-mpi/ompi/issues/8829 to track the issue.
On Apr 19, 2021, at 6:42 AM, Paul Kapinos via devel
mailto:devel@lists.open-mpi.org>> wrote:
Dear Open MPI developer,
The help for ./configure in openmpi-4.1.0 says (see also below):
> exte
Dear Open MPI developer,
The help for ./configure in openmpi-4.1.0 says (see also below):
> external" forces Open MPI to use an external installation of PMIx.
If I understood correctly, this (also) means that if there is *no* external PMIx
available on the system, the ./configure run should f
