[ewg] OFED 3.2 build errors on ppc64 with SLES11SP2 GMC

[Pavaman S]

Hi Vladamir,

I have installed the kernel-default-devel rpms and also other kernel rpms
available in SLES11SP2 GMC.

# rpm -qa | grep kernel
kernel-ppc64-devel-3.0.13-0.27.1
linux-kernel-headers-2.6.32-1.4.13
nfs-kernel-server-1.2.3-18.17.2
kernel-default-base-3.0.13-0.27.1
kernel-ppc64-3.0.13-0.27.1
kernel-default-3.0.13-0.27.1
kernel-firmware-20110923-0.7.64
kernel-trace-base-3.0.13-0.27.1
kernel-syms-3.0.13-0.27.1
kernel-default-debugsource-3.0.13-0.27.1
kernel-default-devel-3.0.13-0.27.1
kernel-ppc64-base-3.0.13-0.27.1
kernel-trace-3.0.13-0.27.1
kernel-default-debuginfo-3.0.13-0.27.1
kernel-trace-devel-3.0.13-0.27.1
kernel-source-3.0.13-0.27.1

Regards,
Pavaman.S

On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 3:27 AM, Vladimir Sokolovsky <
vlad at dev.mellanox.co.il> wrote:

> On 03/26/2012 02:34 PM, Pavaman S wrote:
>
>> Hello Vladimir,
>>
>> I have downloaded the OFED-3.2 build available in:
>> http://www.openfabrics.org/**downloads/OFED/ofed-3.2-daily/<http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/OFED/ofed-3.2-daily/>
>> I tried to Build using the ./install.pl script to install the 2) Install
>> OFED Software and 3) All packages (all of Basic, HPC).
>>
>> :~/ofed # tar -zxvf OFED-3.2-20120323-1506.tgz
>> :~/ofed/OFED-3.2-20120323-1506 # ls
>> BUILD_ID  LICENSE  README.txt  RPMS  SOURCES  SPECS  SRPMS  docs
>> install.pl
>> uninstall.sh
>> make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-3.0.13-0.27-**
>> obj/ppc64/ppc64'
>> make -C ../../../linux-3.0.13-0.27
>> O=/usr/src/linux-3.0.13-0.27-**obj/ppc64/ppc64/. modules
>> make -C /usr/src/linux-3.0.13-0.27-**obj/ppc64/ppc64 \
>>         KBUILD_SRC=/usr/src/linux-3.0.**13-0.27 \
>>         KBUILD_EXTMOD="/var/tmp/OFED_**topdir/BUILD/compat-rdma-3.2" -f
>> /usr/src/linux-3.0.13-0.27/**Makefile \
>>         modules
>> /usr/src/linux-3.0.13-0.27/**Makefile:588:
>> /usr/src/linux-3.0.13-0.27/**arch/ppc64/Makefile: No such file or
>> directory
>> make[3]: *** No rule to make target
>> `/usr/src/linux-3.0.13-0.27/**arch/ppc64/Makefile'.  Stop.
>> make[2]: *** [sub-make] Error 2
>> make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
>> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-3.0.13-0.27-**obj/ppc64/ppc64'
>> make: *** [kernel] Error 2
>> error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.72838 (%build)
>>
>> As mentioned by Daniel in the earlier mailing lists, we need to do the
>> below steps as work arounds:
>>
>> # mkdir /usr/src/linux-3.0.13-0.27/**arch/ppc64
>> # cp -r /usr/src/linux-3.0.13-0.27/**arch/powerpc/*
>> /usr/src/linux-3.0.13-0.27/**arch/ppc64/
>> # Again we need to execute ./install.pl script and select option 2 and
>> then
>> option 4 ==>  Customize to build the kernel modules and libraries.
>>
>> Will the above mentioned work around be adopted in the ./install.plscript
>> of creating the ppc64 directory for SLES11SP2 distro so that the build
>> issues are resolved with the future OFED-3.2 tar files.
>>
>> Should we open a bug in openfabrics bugzilla to keep track of this issue
>> of
>> building on PPC64 platform.
>>
>> Thanks and Regards,
>> Pavaman.S
>>
>>
> Hi Pavaman,
> Do you have kernel-devel RPMs installed (kernel-default-devel,...) ?
>
> Regards,
> Vladimir
>
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