[openfabrics-ewg] OFED 1.1 tar ball

[Pradeep Satyanarayana]

I look at the OFED sources only on occassions. Recently I downloaded the 
OFED-1.1.tgz  from the openfabrics website. Basically I only wanted to 
look at some sources in this tar ball (and not build). After I 
uncompressed and expanded this tar ball I found another tar ball 
openib-1.1.tgz underneath the SOURCES/ directory. I expanded this tar ball 
to look at the source files. I then started to look at the sources and 
this was at odds to what I expected.

I learnt that I had to run the openib-1.1/configure script to update the 
sources with all the patches. I believe this is counter-intuitive. My 
understanding is that one needs to run the configure script to generate 
the Makefiles and set the appropriate environment in order to build. The 
openib-1.1.tgz  should have had all the patches applied and there should 
be no need to run configure to look at the updated sources.

Pradeep
pradeep at us.ibm.com
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