[openfabrics-ewg] OFED 1.1 - rc4

[sp at scali.com]

>
> I am getting the following configure error when trying to build
> OFED1.1-rc4 on RHEL4-U3 on x86_64.
>
> checking for pthread_mutex_init in -lpthread... yes
> checking for sysfs_open_class in -lsysfs... no
> configure: error: sysfs_open_class() not found.  libibverbs requires
> libsysfs.
> Failed to execute: ./configure
> --cache-file=/var/tmp/OFEDRPM/BUILD/openib-1.1/configure.cache
> --disable-libcheck --prefix /usr/local/ofed --libdir /usr/local/ofed/lib
> CPPFLAGS="-I../libibverbs/include"
> error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.26320 (%install)
>
>
> I have the following sysfs RPMs installed, do I need something else ?
>
>>rpm -q -a | grep sysfs
> sysfsutils-devel-1.2.0-1
> sysfsutils-1.2.0-1
> sysfsutils-1.2.0-1
>
> I did not get this config error on rc3 on the same systems nor did I get
> it on rc4 on my Itanium machines.
> Anyone else see a similar problem ?


Robert,

I think you simply need sysfsutils-devel i386 RPM (from the i386
distribution since that i386 RPM is not included in the x86_64
distribution, I've filed a bug with RedHat about it). The same has
happened to me before.

Cheers,
Steffen

>
> woody
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