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

[Tziporet Koren]

Betsy Zeller wrote:
> We (QLogic) wanted to test out the patches we submitted for InfiniPath
> for RC5. We took the RC4 tarball, and followed the instructions for
> building and installing. Here are some things we noticed.
>
> 1) The OFED RC4 download has an RPM build time dependency on dv-dvel,
> which is only available on SUSE systems. On RedHat systems, this is
> named dv4-devel.
>   
This was solved for RC5
> 3) There doesn't seem to be anything in the OFED build process which
> requires you to be root, but that requirement is there. It's generally
> considered desirable not to force a user to be root to build, because it
> so minimizes the opportunity to shoot off your toes. 
>
> Can we change the build process so that you are not required to be root?
>   
The default RPMs build environment of Redhat requires root permission. 
Since we don't want to develop our own environment we requested root 
permission.

If you want to change this you may sent us a patch.
> 4) The InfiniPath patches built fine on SLES10, but we'll be submitting
> a patch tonight or tomorrow to address the remaining build problem in
> RHEL4 and FC4. 
>
>   
OK - we will wait till you send mail that this is done.
> Regards, Betsy
>