[ewg] Re: [ofa-general] NFS-RDMA compilation problem

[Talpey, Thomas]

At 01:32 AM 10/23/2008, Amar Mudrankit wrote:
>While I was trying to install OFED-1.4-rc3 over SLES 10 SP 2 with
>NFS-RDMA selected for installation, I got the following error message:
>
>nfs-utils-1.1.1 rpm is required to build kernel-ib

Do you need to run on SLES10? Because NFS/RDMA is part of mainline
kernel.org since 2.6.24. A more recent SuSE kernel, or any distro
updated since (roughly) early this year should support NFS/RDMA out
of the box. 

BTW, there are some significant updates in the coming 2.6.28 rc's,
many server improvements and the client now supports Fastreg (FRMR).
These changes are queued in Linus' tree currently.

I'll let Jeff Becker speak to the OFED packaging, which is what your
dependency error seems to be stemming from.

Tom.

>
>I have downloaded and installed successfully, the nfs-utils-1.1.4
>**source .tgz** from   http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/nfs,
>still I was hit with the same error message.
>
>I was not able to find out nfs-utils rpm that would install over SLES
>10 SP 2.  Can anybody please point me to the location of rpm? Why is
>OFED installation unable to detect the latest installation of nfs
>utils compiled from source and is fully dependent upon the rpm
>installation?