On May 24, 2011, at 12:02 PM CDT, John Reiser wrote:
>> Those are probably the most labor-intensive ways that you can do it. It's usually easier to just pass "--without-mpicc" to configure and use the normal build process in all other respects.
>
> 1. No documentation: no mention of MPI in README*, no explicit list of packages
> that might be eligible for --without-*, etc.
>
> 2. The default "-with-mpicc" does not work (it fails to detect the unusable
> state on the original poster's machine), so the override "--without-mpicc"
> should be regarded with suspicion.
I didn't mean it as any kind of personal slight, and I completely agree that this is both under-documented and slightly buggy. I just wanted to get the easiest solution that I know actually works into the mail archives.
I've got ~1/2 of a patch to fix the mpicc detection already written that has been shelved for a while, perhaps I should resume work on it. If I can get that working then none of these solutions should be necessary.
-Dave
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