Hi Brian, * Brian Barrett wrote on Sun, May 07, 2006 at 08:38:35PM CEST: > On May 6, 2006, at 6:29 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > > A very minor nit in OpenMPI, concerning autotools: I think it's > > better to specify the arguments to AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR and _MACRO_DIR > > without leading "./", since if those name end up in Makefile targets, > > BSD make won't have problems with VPATH lookup. (Maybe this should be > > noted in the Autoconf documentation.) > Probably means this was a problem in some ancient version of our > environment and it never got changed. It looks reasonable, so I'll > make it so. Which platforms will barf with the './config'? Trying > to figure out which branches this needs to be committed to...
None will barf, but some variants of BSD make may have issues with VPATH (source tree != build tree) builds. I'm being intentionally vague here as I haven't encountered issues with OpenMPI yet. Cheers, Ralf
