My $0.02: This is another in a growing list of issues reflecting the
whole "build everything in DESTDIR" is a problematic approach.
I have distinct %build and %install sections in the Open MPI specfile
-- they're really intended for two different things. Specifically: I
wouldn't call the SuSE %build behavior a bug -- it reflects how they
want RPM designers to write RPMs. It appears that we're trying to
circumvent their intended approach. Shouldn't that be a warning
flag? :-)
I've heard offhand comments that there were problems with trying to
use chroot for building OFED. The two that I'm aware of are:
1. need to be root to make a chroot.
My thought: who cares?
2. takes up lots of extra disk space.
My thought: does it matter? Do we know of anyone who has small-
disk servers who are building OFED? (and/or: can you hard-link files
to make a chroot environment? I'm don't know)
Are there other issues? More specifically, which is going to be
simpler: a) fixing the growing list of problems with the DESTDIR
approach or b) switching to a chroot environment?
A simple search for "chroot" on freshmeat, for example, turns up a
number of projects that can be used to help automate the creation of
chroot environments.
Again -- this is all my $0.02. Comments?
On Feb 7, 2007, at 12:00 PM, Vladimir Sokolovsky wrote:
> I propose to replace %build by %install.
> Otherwise %build removes /var/tmp/OFED (on SuSE) which includes all
> installed libraries.
>
> Regards,
> Vladimir
>
> On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 11:52 -0500, Jeff Squyres wrote:
>> The "%build" directive is not just a macro, it's also a section
>> qualifier indicating the beginning of the build section. From
>>
>> http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/drafts/rpm-guide-en/
>> ch08s02.html#id2966770
>>
>> "The build section starts with a %build statement."
>>
>> Is there something else that I should replace it with that will also
>> start the build section?
>>
>>
>>
>> On Feb 7, 2007, at 11:42 AM, Vladimir Sokolovsky wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Jeff,
>>> Please remove %build macro from the RPM spec file.
>>> On SuSE distros it removes RPM_BUILD_ROOT.
>>>
>>> Executing(%build): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.23343
>>> + umask 022
>>> + cd /var/tmp/OFEDRPM/BUILD
>>> + /bin/rm -rf /var/tmp/OFED
>>> ++ dirname /var/tmp/OFED
>>> + /bin/mkdir -p /var/tmp
>>> + /bin/mkdir /var/tmp/OFED
>>> + cd openmpi-1.2b4ofedr13470
>>> + fortify_source=1
>>> + test '' '!=' ''
>>> ...
>>>
>>> --
>>> Vladimir Sokolovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>> Mellanox Technologies Ltd.
>>
>>
--
Jeff Squyres
Server Virtualization Business Unit
Cisco Systems
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