[ewg] Re: [ofa-general] Build error with build_32bit=1

[Vladimir Sokolovsky]

Or Gerlitz wrote:
> Tziporet Koren wrote:
>> No one raises this issue in the meeting and there is no open issue in
>> bugzilla.
>>
>> In addition in the EWG meeting yesterday we decided that RC6 is going to
>> be the GA, and that we are stopping the critical bug fixes now.
>> There will always new bugs and issues but a release should be out, and
>> we can later provide support patches for various issues.
> 
> Saying all the above, can you comment if --Mellanox-- builds OFED with 
> build_32bit=0 or build_32bit=1 ???
> 
> if this is indeed broken, OFED 1.2 GA can't go into 64bit distros, how 
> do you want to GA like this?
> 
> Or.
> 

The default value of build_32bit is 1 (on ppc64 and x86_64) in case that 
glibc-devel-32bit is installed, otherwise 0.
It can be changed from environment by:
export build_32bit=0
./install.sh
...

In Mellanox most of the servers are installed with glibc-devel-32bit.
So, we test both.

In any case the issue that Mahmoud have caused by non-standard value of 
the environment variable sysconfdir (/usr/etc instead of /etc) and not 
by build_32bit.


Regards,
Vladimir