[openib-general] Compilation issues on rhel4 u3 ppc64 sysfs.o

[Scott Weitzenkamp (sweitzen)]

This is working for us on RHEL4 U3, thanks!

Scott Weitzenkamp
SQA and Release Manager
Server Virtualization Business Unit
Cisco Systems
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vladimir Sokolovsky [mailto:vlad at mellanox.co.il] 
> Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 2:49 AM
> To: Scott Weitzenkamp (sweitzen)
> Cc: Paul; openib-general at openib.org
> Subject: Re: [openib-general] Compilation issues on rhel4 u3 
> ppc64 sysfs.o
> 
> In OFED-1.0-rc5 all binaries and libraries will be compiled on *ppc64 
> *with *-m64* flag.
> This requires sysfsutils and sysfsutils-devel 64-bit RPM to 
> be installed 
> (in order to build libibverbs).
> Also pciutils and pciutils-devel 64-bit required for tvflash package.
> 
> libsdp will be built both 32 and 64 bit libraries.
> 
> Note: in order to build sysfsutils 64-bit RPM run:
>          CC="gcc -m64" rpmbuild --rebuild 
> sysfsutils-1.3.0-1.2.1.src.rpm
>           (This was tested on Fedora C4 PPC64)
> 
> Regards,
> Vladimir
> 
> Scott Weitzenkamp (sweitzen) wrote:
> > I know Vlad made some changes for rc5 in this area, at least for 
> > libsdp, not sure if other libs got changed as well.
> >  
> > Scott Weitzenkamp
> > SQA and Release Manager
> > Server Virtualization Business Unit
> > Cisco Systems
> >  
> >
> >     
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> ----------
> >     *From:* Paul [mailto:paul.lundin at gmail.com]
> >     *Sent:* Wednesday, May 24, 2006 11:00 AM
> >     *To:* Scott Weitzenkamp (sweitzen)
> >     *Cc:* openib-general at openib.org
> >     *Subject:* Re: [openib-general] Compilation issues on rhel4 u3
> >     ppc64 sysfs.o
> >
> >     Scott,
> >           Upon further inspection the build.sh and 
> install.sh scripts
> >     built 32bit libraries and binaries. If I export CFLAGS (and the
> >     like) to include -m64 then the build dies while looking for a
> >     64bit libsysfs. rhel4 u3 does not include a ppc64 
> sysfsutils, nor
> >     have I been able to find an actual 64bit version of it. 
> Is there a
> >     workaround for getting things to build actual ppc64
> >     binaries/libraries ?
> >
> >     The actual error is:
> >     checking for dlsym in -ldl... yes
> >     checking for pthread_mutex_init in -lpthread... yes
> >     checking for sysfs_open_class in -lsysfs... no
> >     configure: error: sysfs_open_class() not found. libibverbs
> >     requires libsysfs. 
> >
>