[ewg] Re: Build problem with rnfs-utils

[Jon Mason]

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 10:16:33AM +0100, Alexander Schmidt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> i am trying to install OFED-1.4.1-20090325-0600 on a powerpc system with
> RHEL5.3, including the rnfs-utils package. The build process fails with the
> following message:
> 
> checking for powerpc-redhat-linux-gnu-ld... /usr/bin/ld
> checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes
> checking for GNU libc2... yes
> checking for BSD signal semantics... no
> checking for gethostbyname... yes
> checking for connect... yes
> checking for getaddrinfo... yes
> checking for getrpcbynumber... yes
> checking for getservbyname... yes
> checking for crypt in -lcrypt... yes
> checking for blkid_get_library_version in -lblkid... no
> configure: error: libblkid needed
> error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.5516 (%build)
> 
> I have e2fsprogs-devel-1.39-20.el5.ppc64.rpm installed on the system. When
> I install e2fsprogs-devel-1.39-20.el5.ppc.rpm in addition, the build process
> works fine. Can this be fixed in the rnfs-utils package so that the 64bit
> version of e2fsprogs-devel is used or do we need an additional dependency to
> the 32bit version in the OFED install script?

It is breaking because the install.pl script is modifying the CFLAGS,
etc for ppc64.  I have a patch available which allows the CFLAGS, etc to
be 64bit.  This change enables it to compile.  I do not know the reasons
why the SRPMS are compiled 32bit on ppc64, so I do not know if this is
the proper fix (or if we need to have the 32bit version of
e2fsprogs-devel).

Let me know which fix is preferred, and I'll make the necessary change
and push it to Vlad.

Thanks,
Jon

> 
> Appreciate your comments,
> 
> Alex