[ewg] Trying to install ibutils (from OFED-1.3)

Hal Rosenstock hrosenstock at xsigo.com
Sun Feb 17 05:24:37 PST 2008


On Sat, 2008-02-16 at 23:40 +0000, Sasha Khapyorsky wrote:
> On 14:45 Sat 16 Feb     , Pradeep Satyanarayana wrote:
> > I am trying to install ibutils using the OFED-1.3-20080215-0600 build.
> > I tried the following :
> > ./configure --without-osm
> > checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
> > checking whether build environment is sane... yes
> > checking for gawk... gawk
> > checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
> > checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
> > checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... (cached) yes
> > configure: Using OSM from:no
> > configure: OSM: used from no
> > configure: OSM: build type gen1
> > configure: error: OSM: Fail to recognize vendor type
> 
> I don't think you can build ibutils without OpenSM libraries and include
> files. At least ibutils/ibis tries to use OpenSM header files
> unconditionally.
> 
> > Why is it looking for OSM, even though I asked to it to configure
> > without OSM.
> 
> I think --with-osm option is used only to specify where OpenSM is
> located.

Couldn't this default to the default place where OpenSM is installed ?

> > And why dos it state gen1?

This is to select the vendor layer.

> When failed to detect it ibutils "thinks" it is in IBGold somewhere.

Should it default to OpenIB (gen2 or whatever it's called in ibutils)
rather than gen1 ?

> > How do I rectify this? Any help would be appreciated.

Maintainer is Oren Kladnitsky <orenk at dev.mellanox.co.il>

> I think you need to install at least opensm-libs and opensm-devel
> packages.

Also, libibumad.

-- Hal

> Sasha
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