[OMPI devel] hwloc: libpci vs. libpciaccess - what should OMPI do?

2013-03-18 Thread Jeff Squyres (jsquyres)
(*** Sam: please add this to the agenda for tomorrow; thanks ***) If you recall, we recently discovered that hwloc was linking against libpci, which is GPL (not LGPL). This introduced GPL taint into hwloc, and therefore into Open MPI. ** Note that we didn't have any released versions of Open M

Re: [OMPI devel] hwloc: libpci vs. libpciaccess - what should OMPI do?

2013-03-18 Thread Jeff Squyres (jsquyres)
Disregard this -- I forgot (and read the configure output wrong) that hwloc will *not* do #2 (i.e., link against libpci) unless you specifically request it via --enable-libpci. I'm assuming that we do *not* want to enable that by default (i.e., so that the compiled OMPI installation does not ac