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that Automake doesn't assume that these are GNU standard packages that conform to the GNU coding standards. Without this keyword, Automake can replace the VT INSTALL files with the GNU standard INSTALL text file. This change is ''necessary'' for the autogen improvements that are coming shortly (see http://www.open-mpi.org/community/lists/devel/2010/09/8478.php); I'm committing this change ahead of time so that I can pass it upstream to the VT developers. This commit was SVN r23740.
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 :-) If it has an autogen.subdirs file, then it needs to be a subdirectory that is autogen-able (see the vt project for an example).