From 7d1523cb0065207aa0efd0f0dca0e3e45eb6f4ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeff Squyres Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:11:36 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update the text; it was left over from autogen.sh days (i.e., it had not been updated when we upgraded to autogen.pl). This commit was SVN r25784. --- ompi/contrib/README.txt | 23 +++++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/ompi/contrib/README.txt b/ompi/contrib/README.txt index 8fd277b5b7..cb02bdc5c2 100644 --- a/ompi/contrib/README.txt +++ b/ompi/contrib/README.txt @@ -1,19 +1,18 @@ This is the OMPI contrib system. It is (far) less functional and flexible than the OMPI MCA framework/component system. -Each contrib package must have either both a configure.params and a -configure.m4 file, or it must have an autogen.subdirs file. - -If it has (configure.params, configure.m4), configure.params can be -just like any MCA component's: specify a list of files to create -during AC_OUTPUT. The configure.m4 file will be slurped up into the -main configure script, just like other MCA components. Note that -there is currently no "no configure" option for contrib packages -- -you *must* have a configure.m4 (even if all it does it call $1). -Feel free to fix this situation if you want -- see: - - https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/1162 +Each contrib package must have a configure.m4. It may optionally also +have an autogen.subdirs file. +If it has a configure.m4 file, it must specify its own relevant files +to AC_CONFIG_FILES to create during AC_OUTPUT -- just like MCA +components (at a minimum, usually its own Makefile). The configure.m4 +file will be slurped up into the main configure script, just like +other MCA components. Note that there is currently no "no configure" +option for contrib packages -- you *must* have a configure.m4 (even if +all it does it call $1). Feel free to fix this situation if you want +-- it probably won't not be too difficult to extend autogen.pl to +support this scenario, similar to how it is done for MCA components. :-) If it has an autogen.subdirs file, then it needs to be a subdirectory