Good enough; thanks for the refresher. :) Sent from my phone. No type good.
> On Aug 18, 2014, at 2:07 PM, "Brice Goglin" <brice.gog...@inria.fr> wrote: > > Le 18/08/2014 20:37, Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) a écrit : >> I notice that --enable-plugins seems to be broken -- it always ends in: >> >> configure: WARNING: Plugin support requested, but could not find ltdl.h >> configure: error: Cannot continue >> >> if you don't have libltdl installed. Is this intentional? I.e., have we >> already relied on an external libltdl? Or have we previously embedded >> libltdl (via LT_CONFIG_LTDL_DIR), and it has just bit-rotted? > > We had both external and embedded ltdl support in the beginning. We > removed embedded in 1.7.1. > Brice > > > commit 7491172a4754b0e198f699cb31b7c65c59ac4df6 > Author: Brice Goglin <brice.gog...@inria.fr> > Date: Wed May 15 08:15:49 2013 +0000 > > Stop embedding libltdl, always use the system-wide libltdl > > The ltdl embedding caused problems to the hwloc embedding such as > http://www.open-mpi.org/community/lists/hwloc-devel/2013/04/3659.php > We fixed the embedding AM_CONDITIONAL problem in > https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/hwloc/changeset/5605 > but the generated tarballs now (sometimes) miss libltdl, > causing configure to break. > The patch in the first link above worked around that issue but... > > * Embedding ltdl is useful when you rely on recent ltdl features, > while ltdl 1.5 (couldn't test earlier) looks OK for hwloc, > and that version is very old and available everywhere. > * the ltdl embedding ability isn't perfect in "recursive" mode > (we had a hack for its config.h file in our configure > see http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool/2012-08/msg00016.html) > * we only need ltdl when --enable-plugins (not by default) > > That's enough reasons to consider not embedding ltdl anymore. > We now require people to install libltdl-dev/libtool-ltdl-dev > if they want plugins. > > This commit was SVN r5618. > > > _______________________________________________ > hwloc-devel mailing list > hwloc-de...@open-mpi.org > Subscription: http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/hwloc-devel > Link to this post: > http://www.open-mpi.org/community/lists/hwloc-devel/2014/08/4176.php
