Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but if it is generated at -compile- time, then how did it get in the 1.4.1 tarball?
On Jan 22, 2010, at 1:56 AM, Shiqing Fan wrote: > Hi, > > No, that's not true, we did ship the flex-generated code a time ago, but as > that part of code changes sometimes, we decided to generate it during > compilation time, and the flex.exe came with the first support of Windows > (CMake). > > > Regards, > Shiqing > > Jeff Squyres wrote: >> Don't we ship the flex-generated code in the tarball anyway? If so, why do >> we ship flex.exe? >> >> On Jan 21, 2010, at 12:14 PM, Barrett, Brian W wrote: >> >> >>> I have to agree with the two requests here. Having either a windows tarball >>> or a windows build tools tarball doesn't seem too burdensom, and could even >>> be done automatically at make dist time. >>> >>> Brian >>> >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: users-boun...@open-mpi.org <users-boun...@open-mpi.org> >>> To: us...@open-mpi.org <us...@open-mpi.org> >>> Sent: Thu Jan 21 10:05:03 2010 >>> Subject: Re: [OMPI users] flex.exe >>> >>> Am Donnerstag, den 21.01.2010, 11:52 -0500 schrieb Michael Di Domenico: >>> >>>> openmpi-1.4.1/contrib/platform/win32/bin/flex.exe >>>> >>>> I understand this file might be required for building on windows, >>>> since I'm not I can just delete the file without issue. >>>> >>>> However, for those of us under import restrictions, where binaries are >>>> not allowed in, this file causes me to open the tarball and delete the >>>> file (not a big deal, i know, i know). >>>> >>>> But, can I put up a vote for a pure source only tree? >>>> >>> I'm very much in favor of that since we can't ship this binary in >>> Debian. We'd have to delete it from the tarball and repack it with every >>> release which is quite cumbersome. If these tools could be shipped in a >>> separate tarball that would be great! >>> >>> Best regards >>> Manuel >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> users mailing list >>> us...@open-mpi.org >>> http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> users mailing list >>> us...@open-mpi.org >>> http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users >>> >>> >> >> >> > > > -- > -------------------------------------------------------------- > Shiqing Fan http://www.hlrs.de/people/fan > High Performance Computing Tel.: +49 711 685 87234 > Center Stuttgart (HLRS) Fax.: +49 711 685 65832 > Address:Allmandring 30 email: f...@hlrs.de 70569 Stuttgart > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > us...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users
