What prevents us from generating the code during make dist time and therefore not shipping flex.exe?
-jms Sent from my PDA. No type good. ----- Original Message ----- From: Shiqing Fan <f...@hlrs.de> To: Open MPI Users <us...@open-mpi.org> Cc: Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) Sent: Fri Jan 22 03:56:52 2010 Subject: Re: [OMPI users] flex.exe Hi, No, that's not true, we did ship the flex-generated code a time ago, but as that part of code changes sometimes, we decided to generate it during compilation time, and the flex.exe came with the first support of Windows (CMake). Regards, Shiqing Jeff Squyres wrote: > Don't we ship the flex-generated code in the tarball anyway? If so, why do > we ship flex.exe? > > On Jan 21, 2010, at 12:14 PM, Barrett, Brian W wrote: > > >> I have to agree with the two requests here. Having either a windows tarball >> or a windows build tools tarball doesn't seem too burdensom, and could even >> be done automatically at make dist time. >> >> Brian >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: users-boun...@open-mpi.org <users-boun...@open-mpi.org> >> To: us...@open-mpi.org <us...@open-mpi.org> >> Sent: Thu Jan 21 10:05:03 2010 >> Subject: Re: [OMPI users] flex.exe >> >> Am Donnerstag, den 21.01.2010, 11:52 -0500 schrieb Michael Di Domenico: >> >>> openmpi-1.4.1/contrib/platform/win32/bin/flex.exe >>> >>> I understand this file might be required for building on windows, >>> since I'm not I can just delete the file without issue. >>> >>> However, for those of us under import restrictions, where binaries are >>> not allowed in, this file causes me to open the tarball and delete the >>> file (not a big deal, i know, i know). >>> >>> But, can I put up a vote for a pure source only tree? >>> >> I'm very much in favor of that since we can't ship this binary in >> Debian. We'd have to delete it from the tarball and repack it with every >> release which is quite cumbersome. If these tools could be shipped in a >> separate tarball that would be great! >> >> Best regards >> Manuel >> >> _______________________________________________ >> users mailing list >> us...@open-mpi.org >> http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> users mailing list >> us...@open-mpi.org >> http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users >> >> > > > -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Shiqing Fan http://www.hlrs.de/people/fan High Performance Computing Tel.: +49 711 685 87234 Center Stuttgart (HLRS) Fax.: +49 711 685 65832 Address:Allmandring 30 email: f...@hlrs.de 70569 Stuttgart
