Sure. I added the cloneurl information:

https://lisas.de/~adrian/open-mpi.git

On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 04:30:05PM +0000, Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) wrote:
> Can I clone your git tree and send you a patch?
> 
> On Feb 11, 2014, at 4:45 PM, Adrian Reber <adr...@lisas.de> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 08:09:35PM +0000, Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) wrote:
> >> On Feb 8, 2014, at 4:49 PM, Adrian Reber <adr...@lisas.de> wrote:
> >> 
> >>>> I note you have a stray $3 at the end of your configure.m4, too (it 
> >>>> might supposed to be $2?).
> >>> 
> >>> I think I do not really understand configure.m4 and was happy to just
> >>> copy it from blcr. Especially what $2 and $3 mean and how they are
> >>> supposed to be used. I will try to simplify my configure.m4. Is there an
> >>> example which I can have a look at?
> >> 
> >> Sorry -- been a bit busy with releasing OMPI 1.7.4 and preparing for 
> >> 1.7.5...
> >> 
> >> m4 is a macro language, so think of it as templates with some 
> >> intelligence.  
> >> 
> >> $1, $2, and $3 are the "parameters" passed in to the macro.  So when you 
> >> do something like:
> >> 
> >> AC_DEFUN([FOO], [
> >>   echo 1 is $1
> >>   echo 2 is $2])
> >> 
> >> and you invoke that macro via
> >> 
> >>   FOO([hello world], [goodbye world])
> >> 
> >> the generated script will contain:
> >> 
> >>   echo 1 is hello world
> >>   echo 2 is goodbye world
> >> 
> >> In our case, $1 is the action to execute if the package is happy / wants 
> >> to build, and $2 is the action to execute if the package is unhappy / does 
> >> not want to build.
> >> 
> >> Meaning: we have a top-level engine that is iterating over all frameworks 
> >> and components, and calling their *_CONFIG macros with appropriate $1 and 
> >> $2 values that expand to actions-to-execute-if-happy / 
> >> actions-to-execute-if-unhappy.
> >> 
> >> Make sense?
> > 
> > Thanks. I also tried to understand the macros better and with the
> > generated output and your description I think I understand it.
> > 
> > Trying to simplify configure.m4 like you suggested I would change this:
> > 
> >    AS_IF([test "$check_crs_criu_good" != "yes"], [$2],
> >          [AS_IF([test ! -z "$with_criu" -a "$with_criu" != "yes"],
> >                 [check_crs_criu_dir="$with_criu"
> >                  check_crs_criu_dir_msg="$with_criu (from --with-criu)"])
> >           AS_IF([test ! -z "$with_criu_libdir" -a "$with_criu_libdir" != 
> > "yes"],
> >                 [check_crs_criu_libdir="$with_criu_libdir"
> >                  check_crs_criu_libdir_msg="$with_criu_libdir (from 
> > --with-criu-libdir)"])
> >          ])
> > 
> > to this:
> > 
> >   AS_IF([test "$check_crs_criu_good" = "yes" -a ! -z "$with_criu" -a 
> > "$with_criu" != "yes"],
> >         [check_crs_criu_dir="$with_criu"
> >          check_crs_criu_dir_msg="$with_criu (from --with-criu)"], 
> >         [$2
> >          check_crs_criu_good="no"])
> > 
> >   AS_IF([test "$check_crs_criu_good" = "yes" -a ! -z "$with_criu_libdir" -a 
> > "$with_criu_libdir" != "yes"],
> >         [check_crs_criu_dir_libdir="$with_criu_libdir"
> >          check_crs_criu_dir_libdir_msg="$with_criu_libdir (from 
> > --with-criu)"],
> >         [$2
> >          check_crs_criu_good="no"])
> > 
> > 
> > correct? With three checks in one line it seems bit unreadable
> > and the nested AS_IF seems easier for me to understand.
> > Did I understand it correctly what you meant or did you
> > mean something else?
> > 
> >             Adrian
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