[ofa-general] where to report bugs?

[Ira Weiny]

On Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:43:07 -0400
"Brian J. Murrell" <Brian.Murrell at Sun.COM> wrote:

> On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 13:31 -0700, Ira Weiny wrote:
> > 
> > Are you specifying --prefix on the infiniband-diags configure?
> 
> Ahhh.  That would have the undesired effect of relocating my
> infiniband-diags wherever I specify --prefix.  This is not quite what I
> want.
> 
> The ugly details are about to come out.
> 
> The problem is that I am not setting a --prefix when I build any of the
> prerequisite packages (i.e. opensm, the libraries it depends on, etc.)
> as I want everything to actually have a /usr prefix, however for the
> purposes of building this stack from the downloadable package of what's
> basically SRPMs, I install the prerequisites into a temporary path.
> 
> So I have a dir "./tree/" in which I use rpm2cpio < $rpm | cpio -id to
> roll the packages into and then point the various configure scripts to
> using various --with-* options.  This method has worked so far for:
> 
> SRPMS/libibcommon-1.0.8-1.ofed1.3
> SRPMS/libibumad-1.1.7-1.ofed1.3
> SRPMS/opensm-3.1.10-1.ofed1.3
> SRPMS/ibutils-1.2-1.ofed1.3
> SRPMS/libibmad-1.1.6-1.ofed1.3
> 
> The overall problem is that I cannot taint my pristine build environment
> by going along the normal process of "build rpm, install it, build next
> rpm, install it, etc.", so I have to install prerequisite RPMs into a
> sandbox and point subsequent users (in the build process) of it into the
> sandbox.
> 

So I guess you want something like:

export CPPFLAGS="-I<sandbox_dir>/include"

Before you do the configure and build?

Ira