On 11/7/13 11:15 AM, "Jeff Squyres (jsquyres)" <jsquy...@cisco.com> wrote:
>On Nov 7, 2013, at 9:10 AM, Ralph Castain <r...@open-mpi.org> wrote: > >>> how it is differ from other related stuf kept in svn to support: >>> >>> - rpm based distros? (dist/linux/) >>> - macos (contrib/dist/macosx-pkg/) >>> - __debian_stuff_could_be_here_as_well >> >> That's a fair point - I'll let the folks who added those directories >>chime in as to their views on the difference, if any - I think some of >>those may be historical and quite stale (i.e., they may only be there >>because we forgot they existed) > >The RPM stuff that is there is for the official SRPM that is distributed >on www.open-mpi.org. This SRPM is not used by any distro -- it is used >by users. Distros have their own, very customized, RPMs for Open MPI. > >The Mac OS X package is defunct and should probably be removed. But it >was also used by users to install/uninstall Open MPI because OS X never >provided one themselves. I'm not sure it's defunct, we just don't build packages any more. If nothing else, it's a good example of how to build fat binaries for Open MPI. Brian -- Brian W. Barrett Scalable System Software Group Sandia National Laboratories
