On Nov 29, 2011, at 7:25 AM, Stefan Eilemann wrote: >> You are probably missing the libpci-devel package. > > Thanks, that either doesn't exist or wasn't installed on Redhat. It works now. > > I think messages of found/not found optional modules could be more prominent > at the end of the configure process.
FWIW, I've traditionally been against such things for two reasons: 1. The information *was* displayed above (i.e., that pci-devel wasn't found/wasn't usable/whatever). I realize that most people don't read the stdout of configure at all, but all the information you need is already there. 2. A list of what will/will not be built at the end tends to grow lengthy such that it dilutes the value of repeating the information at the end. That being said, I can *somewhat* see the value of displaying a user-friendly "PCI device support will not be built" vs. the output of a configure test, which might be somewhat obscure. However, in hwloc's case, the configure test output is pretty self-evident. Examples: checking for PCI... no checking pci/pci.h usability... no checking pci/pci.h presence... no checking for pci/pci.h... no checking for LIBXML2... yes checking for xmlNewDoc... yes checking for final LIBXML2 support... yes A simple string search for "pci" and "xml" will find these lines in the configure output. Assumedly, if you're building from source, you've likely got at least *some* experience and it shouldn't be unreasonable to ask you to go look in the output of configure. Don't get me wrong -- I'm not dead-set against a listing at the bottom. I just find it redundant and somewhat of a maintenance hassle. -- Jeff Squyres jsquy...@cisco.com For corporate legal information go to: http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/
