On 17-Jul-11 5:50 PM, Jeff Squyres wrote: > Are you saying that you don't link against symbols from that header file -- > you only use struct definitions / #defines ? If so, then I would agree -- > it's not necessary.
I'm using macros, data types and inline functions that work on these data types - basically, getters and setters for struct fields. -- YK > Can you confirm? > > > On Jul 17, 2011, at 9:19 AM, Yevgeny Kliteynik wrote: > >> Hi Jeff, >> >> On 14-Jul-11 5:26 PM, Jeff Squyres wrote: >>> On Jul 14, 2011, at 10:16 AM, Yevgeny Kliteynik wrote: >>> >>>> Also, besides checking if compilation works (assuming that I get >>>> this file), I have no way checking if linkage also works... >>> >>> You can AC_LINK_IFELSE to see if the symbols you need are in the libraries. >>> >>> Er... I'm sorry, I should have noticed this earlier. :-( We usually check >>> for types in headers *and* use AC_LINK_IFELSE to ensure that we can >>> actually link against those symbols as well. You should add this in the >>> ompi_check_openib.m4 testing. >> >> I'm not sure it's necessary here. >> I was talking about Solaris w.r.t. linkage, because I don't know how >> IB Management stuff looks there. For Linux, I don't actually do any >> linkage - all I need in the header file. If it's there, then I'm OK. >> >> -- YK > >
