[ewg] Re: [ofa-general] OFED 1.2 Feb-26 meeting summary

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

> Quoting Doug Ledford <dledford at redhat.com>:
> Subject: Re: [ofa-general] OFED 1.2 Feb-26 meeting summary
> 
> On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 20:42 -0500, Jeff Squyres wrote:
> > To be totally clear, there are three issues:
> > 
> > 1. *NOT AN MPI ISSUE*: base location of the stack.  Doug has  
> > repeatedly mentioned that /usr/local/ofed is not good.  This is a  
> > group issue to decide.
> 
> As long as the base OFED stack is /usr/local/ofed, if someone calls Red
> Hat support to get IB help with RHEL5 or RHEL4U5, they will be told that
> they must first delete all locally built OFED RPMs from the system.  It
> simply isn't realistic for us to try and support a system where
> conflicting libraries can exist in different locations and attempts to
> resolve the problem could end up being fruitless simply because the
> wrong library is getting linked in behind our backs.

I think the prefix is easily configurable.
So I think we should just say in the readme note that prefix
should be /usr if one wants to get redhat support for infiniband.


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