[openfabrics-ewg] Some observations on the OFED build process

Dan Bar Dov danb at voltaire.com
Wed May 17 01:05:35 PDT 2006


Actually, it looks like the problem is not libata, but the include file that is missing.
Looks like the kernel sources installation is coorrupted, the asm dir is a symbolic link to the
actual architecture. I'd suggest to re-install the kernel sources.

Dan 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Or Gerlitz 
> Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 10:46 AM
> To: Betsy Zeller
> Cc: myopenib at gmail.com; openfabrics-ewg at openib.org; Dan Bar Dov
> Subject: Re: [openfabrics-ewg] Some observations on the OFED 
> build process
> 
> Betsy Zeller wrote:
> > Moni -
> > 
> > Apparently SLES10 Beta 8 doesn't have asm/linkage.h in the 
> spot where it
> > is expected. It's possible that this was addressed in a later SLES10
> > Beta, but it definitely fails on SLES10 Beta 8.
> > 
> > 
> >  Here's the relevant lines from the log.
> > CC[M]  
> /lib/modules/2.6.16-rc6-git1-4-smp/source/drivers/scsi/libata-core.o
> > In file included from include/linux/kernel.h:11,
> > 
> > from 
> /lib/modules/2.6.16-rc6-git1-4-smp/source/drivers/scsi/libata-
> core.c:36:
> > include/linux/linkage.h:5:25: error: asm/linkage.h: No such file or
> > directory
> > 
> 
> libata is by no means related to iSCSI and hence not 
> influenced by the 
> patches we apply on the kernel. So the failure you experience 
> does not 
> seem to be connected to OFED.
> 
> Or.
> 
> > On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 08:05 +0300, Moni Levy wrote:
> >> Hi, Betsy,
> >>> 2) Installing on SLES10 Beta 8, there was a build failure 
> with iscsi.
> >> Can you please give us some input about the failure you observed ?
> >>
> >> Moni
> > 
> 
> 
> 



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