[openib-general] Open MPI rpmbuild fails in OFED-1.2

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

> Quoting Jeff Squyres <jsquyres at cisco.com>:
> Subject: Re: Open MPI rpmbuild fails in OFED-1.2
> 
> On Feb 7, 2007, at 2:49 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> 
> >> My $0.02: This is another in a growing list of issues reflecting the
> >> whole "build everything in DESTDIR" is a problematic approach.
> >
> > I don't know much about RPM, and I am not exactly sure why are
> > our source RPMs so complicated.
> 
> It's a combination of two things:
> 
> 1) similar to what you said below, we have lots of software packages  
> that are all dependent upon each other
> --> this leads to a conglomeration of rpath's and shared library  
> dependencies that are incorrect
> 
> 2) we're trying to *use* the software when it is installed in the  
> DESTDIR
> --> this means that you have to put special-case in the software so  
> that they look for support files in both the DESTDIR *and* the final  
> installation directory

How do you mean, use?

Hmm. I guess my question is - this works fine when I run OFED's
configure script, why is SRPM so much more difficult?

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