[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 30.03.2007 01:47:49: > We have here at LLNL a kernel which is based on RHEL4 U4 but has a kernel > version which looks like this: > > 16:10:56 > uname -r > 2.6.9-61chaos > > One of our engineers here downloaded the latest OFED 1.2 build and > attempted to > build the kernel modules, which fails. (I have included the ofed. > conf file and > build log) > > As we were afraid, build.sh does not detect the correct kernel version. We > attempted to work around the problem by: > > 1) installing the ofa_kernel-1.2-beta1.src.rpm > > 16:31:05 > rpm -i ofa_kernel-1.2-beta1.src.rpm > warning: user vlad does not exist - using root > warning: group vlad does not exist - using root > warning: user vlad does not exist - using root > warning: group vlad does not exist - using root > > 16:31:09 > ls */*ofa* > SOURCES/ofa_kernel-1.2.tgz SPECS/ofa_kernel.spec* > > 2) Extracting the source from that install > 3) Adding the following line to the configure script. > > get_backport_dir() > ... > 2.6.9-61*) > echo 2.6.9_U4 > ;; > ... > > 4) taring that source back up. An alternative is to call configure <options>, make, make install Issue configure --help to obtain a full list of options, ie to tell which modules you want to build. > > 16:34:34 > ls */*ofa* > SOURCES/ofa_kernel-1.2.tgz SPECS/ofa_kernel.spec* > > SOURCES/ofa_kernel-1.2: > BUILD_ID Makefile@ drivers/ kernel_addons/ makefile@ > ofed_scripts/ > Documentation/ configure@ include/ kernel_patches/ net/ > > 5) runing rpmbuild -ba ofa_kernel.spec Looking at ofa_kernel.spec you need to set configure_options as told above. Eg like this: rpmbuild -bb --define='--with-core-mod' SPECS/ofa_kernel.spec Frankly speaking, I haven't tried that out. Regards Nam
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