Le 06/02/2013 16:10, Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) a écrit : > On Feb 6, 2013, at 7:02 AM, Brice Goglin <brice.gog...@inria.fr> wrote: > >> Just pushed Samuel's patch + the configury + one fix for object names. >> The code currently uses libpciaccess by default. pciutils is only used >> when libpciaccess isn't available. > > I think that this will still result in many GPL-enabled hwlocs by default > because libpci is installed on many distros by default, but libpciaccess is > not. > > How about: > > - Check for libpciaccess. If found, use it. STOP. > - If not found: > - check for libpci. > - if found, and if --enable-gpl-taint was specified, use it. STOP. > - if not found, display the usual "no pci support" message at the end. STOP. > - if found: > - display the usual "no pci support" message at the end > - but also display a big, bold, flashing message saying "We can enable > PCI support in one of two ways: 1) download/install libpciaccess > (http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libpciaccess/), or 2) pass > --enable-gpl-taint to allow hwloc to use libpci, BUT BE AWARE THAT THIS MAKES > THIS HWLOC BINARY AND EVERYTHING THAT IT LINKS TO BE GPL!"
If "configure --help" and the big warning both say that enabling it *may* taint as GPL, the option could just be "--enable-libpci". Brice
