On 21 October 2017 at 02:26, Damian Rouson <dam...@sourceryinstitute.org> wrote: > > Hi Richard, > > Attached is a revised patch that makes the downloading of Fortran > prerequisites optional via a new --no-fortran flag that can be passed to > contrib/download_prerequisites as requested in your reply below. > > As Jerry mentioned in his response, he has been working on edits to the > top-level build machinery, but we need additional guidance to complete his > work. Given that there were no responses to his request for guidance and > it’s not clear when that work will complete, I’m hoping this minor change can > be approved independently so that this patch doesn’t suffer bit rot in the > interim. > > Ok for trunk?
+ die "Invoking wget and curl in the 'download_prerequisites' script failed." I suggest "Neither wget nor curl found, cannot download tarballs." As an open-mpi user i question why this hardcodes MPICH, fwiw. thanks,
