[ofa-general] Re: OFED-1.2 on x86 debian

[Joe Landman]

Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>> Quoting Yoshiaki Tamura <tamura at osrg.net>:
>> Subject: OFED-1.2 on x86 debian
>>
>> Hi.
>>
>> I'm trying to install OFED-1.2 on x86 (32bit) debian machine.
>> Although build_env.sh seems to work on debian,
>> it fails compiling both kernel modules and user land tools by rpmbuild.
>>
>> Is OFED-1.2 tested on debian or totally unsupported?
> 
> It's not on a list of supported platforms, but I think we do builds
> on ubuntu so debian should work too. Vlad?

I have been trying to make it work here on Ubuntu (Debian rebuild) 7.04.

Had to hack build_env.sh a little to get it to ignore some of the 
dependency checking (done by package name, which is not portable across 
distros).



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