On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:10:50 +0200 Sasha Khapyorsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 09:42 Mon 24 Nov , Ira Weiny wrote: > > > > > > Do not you think this library should be rather part of infiniband-diags, > > > rather than separate package/management sub-project? Personally I would > > > prefer to have this as part of infiniband-diags. > > > > No, I would like to see it be a stand alone library. Currently > > infiniband-diags does not provide any library functionality and simply > > depends > > on the libraries provided by the rest of the management tree. Don't you > > think > > this is a good model to follow? > > Why it must be so - infiniband-diags will be useless without this library. > > And I would really hate to handle one more package (actually not just one > - libibnetdisc, libibnetdisc-devel, libibnetdisc-static, etc.). I wanted > to remove libibcommon... > I think the argument against ibcommon is that it does not provide enough additional functionality to warrant an entire new library. On the other hand infiniband-diags depends on many libraries: AC_CHECK_LIB(ibcommon, ... <== delete this... And you still have the following... AC_CHECK_LIB(ibumad, ... AC_CHECK_LIB(ibmad, ... AC_CHECK_LIB(osmcomp, ... AC_CHECK_LIB(osmvendor, ... AC_CHECK_LIB(opensm, ... I don't think it is in appropriate to have utilities which are dependent on libraries, it is done all the time. Ira _______________________________________________ general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
