* Jeff Squyres wrote on Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 01:28:40PM CEST: > On Jul 10, 2007, at 2:42 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > >> 1. The most obvious one (to me, at least) is to require that > >> people provide > >> "--with-xx" when they build the system. > > > > I'll throw in another one for good measure: If --with-xx is given, > > build with the component. If --without-xx is given, disable it. > > If neither is given, do as you currently do: enable it if you find > > suitable libraries. > > FWIW, we have this already: [...]
Ah good, I must confess I wasn't aware of this existing functionality (I don't need it myself). Thanks. > > In case the number of components gets too large, have a switch to > > turn off automatic discovery even in the nonpresence of --with* flags. > > Did you mean the equivalent of the --enable-mca-no-build switch, or > disable *all* automatic discovery? I meant: disable all automatic discovery. But you guys are in a much better position to decide which way is more useful. All I wanted is for you to be aware of existing possibilities (which you are, but that wasn't obvious to me). Cheers, Ralf
