Re: [OMPI devel] Open MPI autogen.pl in tarball

2015-10-30 Thread Gilles Gouaillardet
Jeff, OK, will do Cheers, Gilles On Saturday, October 31, 2015, Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) wrote: > On Oct 30, 2015, at 12:09 PM, Barrett, Brian > wrote: > > > > However, I do like Gilles' suggestion to make autogen.pl be a little > smarter. If I recall correctly (and it's been a couple years

Re: [OMPI devel] Open MPI autogen.pl in tarball

2015-10-30 Thread Paul Hargrove
On Tuesday, October 27, 2015, Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) wrote: > we do occasionally get the user on us...@open-mpi.org who > runs autogen.pl for no reason, and then runs into problems because > they've got old Autotools > I has occurred to me that this same class of user is likely to just run aut

Re: [OMPI devel] Open MPI autogen.pl in tarball

2015-10-30 Thread Jeff Squyres (jsquyres)
On Oct 30, 2015, at 12:09 PM, Barrett, Brian wrote: > > However, I do like Gilles' suggestion to make autogen.pl be a little smarter. > If I recall correctly (and it's been a couple years now), I think that's > what GASNet does with their bootstrap script. Seems like everyone gets what > the

Re: [OMPI devel] Open MPI autogen.pl in tarball

2015-10-30 Thread Barrett, Brian
I'm late replying (sigh), but I think I was the one who originally pushed for including autogen.pl in the tarball. My believe is that (modulo the "right" autotools being installed), you should be able to rebuild the tarball from the tarball. This is useful for outside organizations who want to

Re: [OMPI devel] Open MPI autogen.pl in tarball

2015-10-27 Thread Jeff Squyres (jsquyres)
On Oct 27, 2015, at 4:46 PM, Gilles Gouaillardet wrote: > > my 0.02 US$ ... > > - autogen.pl was recently used with v1.10 on a PowerPC Little Endian arch > (that was mandatory since the libtool we use to generate v1.10 series do not > yet support PPC LE) True. But we fixed that; it'll be in 1

Re: [OMPI devel] Open MPI autogen.pl in tarball

2015-10-27 Thread Gilles Gouaillardet
Jeff and all, my 0.02 US$ ... - autogen.pl was recently used with v1.10 on a PowerPC Little Endian arch (that was mandatory since the libtool we use to generate v1.10 series do not yet support PPC LE) - if we remove (from the tarball) autogen.pl, should we also remove configure.ac ? and w

Re: [OMPI devel] Open MPI autogen.pl in tarball

2015-10-27 Thread Paul Hargrove
Maybe not relevant, but... In the GASNet and Berkeley UPC projects we include our analogue of autogen.sh in tarballs, too. Because of this our analogue of MTT is able to exercise it across many versions of the autotools. This *has* actually allowed us to learn of problems in our configury before d