After chatting with Jeff, we decided it would be good to introduce this into the trunk over the weekend so it can settle before people started beating on it. Please note:
WARNING: Work on the temp branch being merged here encountered problems with bugs in subversion. Considerable effort has gone into validating the branch. However, not all conditions can be checked, so users are cautioned that it may be advisable to not update from the trunk for a few days to allow MTT to identify platform-specific issues. See Jeff's notes below about THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW. Ralph On Sep 15, 2010, at 12:34 PM, Jeff Squyres wrote: > Ya, timezone differences and limited communication make it hard / make > miscommunication easy. > > We're not going to wait a year. We're not going to wait a month. > > Ralph and I just need to sync up and get this stuff in. I'm *guessing* it'll > be ready in a week or so. I'll be on the call to discuss next Tuesday. > > > On Sep 13, 2010, at 3:49 PM, Ralph Castain wrote: > >> Just to correct: I will almost certainly not be on this week's call, and >> will definitely not be on for the next two weeks either. >> >> A last-minute concern raised by Jeff makes it doubtful this will come into >> the trunk any time soon, and may see it delayed for more than a year until >> we are ready for a 1.7 series. Unclear at this time as I don't understand >> the nature of his concern, and communication is difficult across the globe. >> >> For now, we can safely table this issue. It isn't coming in anytime soon. >> >> >> On Sep 12, 2010, at 2:40 AM, Jeff Squyres wrote: >> >>> (Terry: please add this to the agenda for the Tuesday call -- Ralph will >>> talk about it since I may not be on the call) >>> >>> Ralph sent a mail a while ago describing improvements to autogen and the >>> build process that Brian, Ralph, and I have been working on. We think this >>> work is now complete, and would like to bring it back to the SVN trunk. >>> Here's the bitbucket where this stuff lives: >>> >>> http://bitbucket.org/rhc/ompi-agen >>> >>> We'd like to bring this stuff in to the SVN trunk by the end of the week. >>> Please examine our changes and/or test the things you care about in the >>> bitbucket. The SVN commit to the trunk will look large mainly because it >>> makes almost-identical changes in many Makefile.am's and configure.m4's >>> (and we removed all configure.params files). >>> >>> ******************************************************** >>> *** THE MOST IMPORTANT THING DEVELOPERS NEED TO KNOW *** >>> ******************************************************** >>> >>> <IMPORTANT> >>> If your component has a configure.m4 file, it MUST call AC_CONFIG_FILES for >>> your Makefile.am! (and/or any files that you want configure to generate). >>> We converted all existing configure.m4 files -- the >>> ompi/mca/btl/tcp/configure.m4 is a nice simple example to see what I mean. >>> </IMPORTANT> >>> >>> There's some other changes and improvements, but most of them are behind >>> the scenes. We'll update the relevant wiki pages with all the other >>> details: >>> >>> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/wiki/devel/Autogen >>> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/wiki/devel/CreateComponent >>> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/wiki/devel/CreateFramework >>> >>> We understand that Mellanox may have some changes to their local branch of >>> the OMPI build system; it is unknown whether they conflict with our new >>> stuff or not. Mellanox is out for ~2 weeks for holidays; we'd like to >>> bring this stuff in to the SVN trunk sooner rather than waiting 2 weeks and >>> letting the branch get overly stale. Of course, when Mellanox does update >>> and get the new stuff, if there are any problems, I'm happy to work through >>> the issues with them. >>> >>> -- >>> Jeff Squyres >>> jsquy...@cisco.com >>> For corporate legal information go to: >>> http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/ >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> devel mailing list >>> de...@open-mpi.org >>> http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/devel >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> devel mailing list >> de...@open-mpi.org >> http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/devel > > > -- > Jeff Squyres > jsquy...@cisco.com > For corporate legal information go to: > http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/ > > > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list > de...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/devel
