[openib-general] [Bug 146] OFED-1.0 DAPL fails to build on SLES10 on IA64 with IA64_FETCHADD error

[James Lentini]

On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, John Partridge wrote:

> The resulting build from your last patch has been installed and we 
> are in the process of DAPL tests now. I do know that the libdat 
> works with Intel MPI (although we had to manually create a symlink 
> from libdat.so.1 to libdat.so - should this not already exist?)

Did you install dapl rpm or dapl-devel rpm? The dapl rpm should have 
libdat.so.1 inside it.

> I do have one question about how the dapl RPM's are organized, we are
> creating a DAPL interface for the ccNUMA xpmem on SGI Altix systems.
> At the moment we have a libdat and libdapl(xpmem). It is our objective
> to use the OFED-1.0 libdat, as libdat will be used for non-infiniband
> interfaces I don't quite understand why libdat (dat.conf) are not a
> separate RPM and the libdapl interfaces installed in a separate RPM ?
> Would his not make more sense ?

The DAPL provider library can have an arbitrary name. You should name 
your DAPL provider something unique (e.g. libdaplxpmem).