[openfabrics-ewg] OFED 1.1 tar ball

[Tziporet Koren]

Pradeep Satyanarayana wrote:
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>
> 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.
>
You are correct - patches of OFED are applied by the configure script. 
The main reason for this is that we need to apply backport patches 
according to a specific OS.

Do you think it will help if we will create a new script that only apply 
the patches?

Tziporet