[openfabrics-ewg] [PATCH OFED-1.1-rc7] openib.spec: solve rpm packaging issue with 64/32 bit binaries and libraries on ppc64

[Hoang-Nam Nguyen]

Hi Vlad!
> I reviewed the patch and I see that only ibv_* 64-bit binaries are
> included with suffix 64 and all other binaries are overrided by 32-bit
> versions.
> Why do think that all binaries on ppc64 should be 32-bit?
Say, that's what Doug Ledford from RedHat told me and what's I heard
from some other people. I personally don't mind to have all binaries
also in 64-bit. The actual reason why I did that so far is because
of my uncertainty which binaries OFED will build in total, hence this
defensive solution for pre-release. I actually wanted a nicer solution
via configure but was not able to put something like EXEEXT=64 to
config-options or to use --program-suffix option.
> I have here ppc64 server with SLES10 installed. I have checked the
> binaries under /usr/bin directory:
> there are 64-bit binaries, 64-bit binaries with suffix 64 and 32-bit
> binaries. So, I didn't see some standart there...
OK, that's true. On SELS 9ppc64 there is gdb for 32-bit and gdb64
for 64-bit. And I just adopt that scheme.
> OFED-1.1-rc7 installs on ppc64 (same as on x86_64) both 32 and 64-bit
> libraries under 'prefix'/lib and 'prefix'/lib64 correspondently and
> 64-bit binaries under 'prefix'/bin.
No. That's not true in my case. In openib.spec _libdir is thought to
specify lib dir for 64 bit and should be 'prefix'/lib64 as you said.
But it is 'prefix'/lib as I checked it.
That means both _libdir and _libdir32 point to the same dir. This
causes the 64-bit libraries to be overwritten by the 32-bit
libraries with the same name when configure is called
second time. Furthermore the %files rule for libibverbs-util
specifies only dir bin, not bin32 in addition. And the result is
libibverbs-utils-1.0.4-0.ppc64.rpm contains only 64-bit binaries and
32-bit libraries. So the 64-bit binaries are useless without the
corresponding 64-bit libraries.
> If you want to change this, lets do it for OFED-1.2.
> If you have some issue with the current installation please describe it.
See above.
> See example from PPC64 with SLES10:
> ibv_devinfo - 64-bit, linked with /usr/local//lib64/libibverbs.so.1
> which is also 64-bit.
Well, as explained above. But I hope you understand my problem.
We only need to define which scheme of 64- and 32-bit exec and libs
we want to pursue.
So what do you think?
Regards
Nam