[openib-general] Re: unable to run ibv_uc_pingpong and other example binaries

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 13:52, Roland Dreier wrote:
>     Hal> As far as I know, the current agreed upon default is
>     Hal> /usr/local/xxx/infiniband where xxx is lib and include.
> 
> No, libraries should go in $PREFIX/lib.  Otherwise the default linker
> path won't work.  

Is this a requirement ? What about setting the appropriate environment
variables or is it better not to do this ?

> Userspace drivers like mthca.so are a special case
> because they're loaded using dlopen() instead of the linker.
> 
> $PREFIX/infiniband/include is a good idea because then code can do
> 
>     #include <infiniband/xxx.h>
> 
> which looks right.

-- Hal