Jeff Squyres, le Fri 02 Apr 2010 14:51:06 -0400, a écrit : > On Apr 2, 2010, at 2:25 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > > But to use an external PLPA/libltdl/whatever, OMPI's configure would just > > > call their configure > > > > I'm not 100% sure what RedHat etc. do, but in Debian the policy wouldn't > > be to do this, but to just link against the existing installed library, > > i.e. use the installed hwloc.pc file only, _not_ run its configure > > script. I believe that's what RedHat etc. mean. > > Yes. > > To be clear, if OMPI is to use the internal/embedded copy, it would just call > the $path_to_hwloc/configure.
Do you mean that if OMPI had to be able to use an external copy in some cases, for the internal case it would now just use ./configure? Why is it so? Can't the main ./configure call the hwloc m4 stuff or not depending on whether the internal or the external version is used? Samuel
