From 62385a6c39bb3b2258e6a0a2cae2437758c83ffa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeff Squyres Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 02:07:01 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add a comment explaining why there is an empty Makefile.am in this tree. This commit was SVN r20184. --- ompi/mca/common/Makefile.am | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/ompi/mca/common/Makefile.am b/ompi/mca/common/Makefile.am index 81d214a38f..b62d86da81 100644 --- a/ompi/mca/common/Makefile.am +++ b/ompi/mca/common/Makefile.am @@ -16,3 +16,9 @@ # $HEADER$ # +# Note that this file must exist, even though it is empty (there is no +# "base" directory for the common framework). autogen.sh and +# ompi_mca.m4 assume that every framework has a top-level Makefile.am. +# We *could* adjust the framework glue code to exclude "common" from +# this requirement, but it's just a lot easier to have an empty +# Makefile.am here.