[ewg] Re: [PATCH] ofed_1_4_scripts: Fix ppc64 building of rnfs-utils

[Steve Wise]

Jon Mason wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 10:39:30AM +0200, Alexander Schmidt wrote:
>   
>> On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:35:58 -0500
>> Jon Mason <jon at opengridcomputing.com> wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 11:25:53AM +0200, Alexander Schmidt wrote:
>>>       
>>>> On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:52:27 -0500
>>>> Jon Mason <jon at opengridcomputing.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> rnfs-utils will not build on ppc64 without a 32bit version of
>>>>> e2fsprogs-devel.  The 32bit version is needed due to logic previously
>>>>> added to install.pl to force the compile to be 32bit.  Another way to
>>>>> fix this issue would be to allow 64bit version of the rnfs-utils by
>>>>> removing the logic which forces it to be 32bit.
>>>>>
>>>>> With the added dependency, rnfs-utils compiles on RHEL5.2 on ppc64
>>>>> without issue.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Jon
>>>>>           
>>>> Hi Jon,
>>>>
>>>> thanks for the patch, it also works fine on RHEL5.3 now.
>>>>
>>>> I've also tried to install the rnfs-utils package on SLES11, and there I run
>>>> into another problem. The SRPM has the following dependencies:
>>>>         
>>> Thanks for testing this on non-RHEL installs.
>>>
>>>       
>>>> [alexschm at BL3D1974 SRPMS]$ rpm -qpR rnfs-utils-1.1.5-rc1.OFED.src.rpm 
>>>> krb5-devel >= 1.3.1
>>>> autoconf >= 2.57
>>>> automake  
>>>> krb5-devel  
>>>> libtool  
>>>> krb5-libs  
>>>> rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
>>>>
>>>> I've created the patch below for teaching the installer that rnfs-utils needs
>>>> the krb5 packages. But on SLES10 & 11, there is no krb5-libs package, so it's
>>>> not possible to install rnfs-utils. Could you try to fix this?
>>>>         
>>> I think the name of the package on SuSE is krb5 or krb5-server.  I've
>>> attached a SRPM to this e-mail without the krb5-libs dependency.  See if
>>> the package fixes any configure issues you could/will hit when trying to
>>> compile rnfs-utils.  You should be able to copy the SRPM over the one in
>>> the OFED tree and it will build as it would normally.
>>>
>>>       
>> Hi Jon,
>>
>> after installing the tcpd-devel (for libwrap) and krb5 packages I was able to
>> build an RPM from the SRPM you attached. This RPM has a dependency on nfs-utils,
>> which does not exist on SLES11... Seems like they have split the package up?!
>>
>> Could you take care of this so that we get a clean install on SLES11?
>>     
>
> I removed the distro specific dependencies from the SRPM and added them
> to the install.pl for OFED.  I will submit the relevant patch to
> install.pl shortly.
>
> You can get the SRPM of rnfs-utils without the nfs-utils dependency at:
> http://www.openfabrics.org/~swise/ofed_1_4/rnfs-utils/
>
> Thanks for the testing and let me know if you hit anymore problems.
>
> Thanks,
> Jon
>
>   
>> Thanks,
>> Alex
>>