On May 15, 2014, at 4:15 PM, Maxime Boissonneault <maxime.boissonnea...@calculquebec.ca> wrote:
> Le 2014-05-15 18:27, Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) a écrit : >> On May 15, 2014, at 6:14 PM, Fabricio Cannini <fcann...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Alright, but now I'm curious as to why you decided against it. >>> Could please elaborate on it a bit ? >> OMPI has a long, deep history with the GNU Autotools. It's a very long, >> complicated story, but the high points are: >> >> 1. The GNU Autotools community has given us very good support over the years. >> 2. The GNU Autotools support all compilers that we want to support, >> including shared library support (others did not, back in 2004 when we >> started OMPI). >> 3. The GNU Autotools can fully bootstrap a tarball such that the end user >> does not need to have the GNU Autotools installed to build an OMPI tarball. > You mean some people do NOT have GNU Autotools ? :P Actually, yes - Cray doesn't install them. > > Jokes aside, CMake has certainly matured enough for point #2 and is used by > very big projects (KDE for example). Not sure about point #3 though. I am > wondering though, how do you handle Windows with OpenMPI and GNU Autotools ? > I know CMake is famous for being cross-plateform (that's what the C means) > and can generate builds for Windows, Visual Studio and such. > The Windows integration actually involved adding CMake support within OMPI. It was truly an ugly effort that caused the student who took it on a great deal of pain. Ultimately, that support was scrapped when the student graduated and nobody was willing to maintain it. > In any case, I do not see any need to change from one toolchain to another, > although I have seen many projects providing both and that did not seem to be > too much of a hassle. It's still probably more work than what you want to get > into though. Yeah, as Jeff indicated, without a burning justification, it just doesn't seem worth it. > > Maxime > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > us...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users