[openfabrics-ewg] OFED 1.1 tar ball

[Pradeep Satyanarayana]

Scott,

I looked at the docs/OFED_Installation_Guide.txt and some of the other 
ones too. The mention of install.sh is in the context of building OFED as 
shown below:

==============================================================================
5. Installing OFED Software
==============================================================================

1) Go to the directory into which the package was extracted:

     cd /..../OFED-X.X.X

2) Installing the OFED package must be done as root.  For a
   menu-driven, first build and installation, run the installer
   script:

     ./install.sh


I did not want to build and install OFED software -just wanted to browse 
through the sources. Even after reading the instructions I still feel that 
the tar ball should have the sources with all the patches applied. It is 
counter-intuitive not to do so. I hope this will change in the upcoming 
OFED 1.2 release.

Pradeep
pradeep at us.ibm.com



"Scott Weitzenkamp \(sweitzen\)" <sweitzen at cisco.com> 
01/10/2007 09:32 AM

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RE: [openfabrics-ewg] OFED 1.1 tar ball






Look in docs/OFED_Installation_Guide.txt, you should run install.sh with 
OFED.
 
Scott

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Subject: [openfabrics-ewg] OFED 1.1 tar ball


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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