Thanks, Dave.  Unfortunately, I'm not working from RPM.  I don't recall
there being an RPM when I first installed SGE (else I surely would have
used it).  I don't know how my directory structure matches up with the
RPM structure, so I'm reluctant to try to install over the top of my
current installation.  I'm also apprehensive about recreating my custom
settings.  My upgrade process to date has been to get the .tar.gz's of
the common and bin, place them in my installation directory and expand
them in place.  Since the libdb4* files are not in any of the binaries
since March, they don't get properly overwritten when I follow this
procedure.  Then, qmaster won't start.  Do you have any idea why the
libdb4* files are not in the .tar.gz anymore?  Chris seemed to think
there was a likely simple explanation.

David

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Love [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 11:58 AM
To: Smith, David [EESUS]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [gridengine users] Courtesy binaries including Berkeley?

"Smith, David [EESUS]" <[email protected]> writes:

> Dave,
>
> Thanks very much for the reply.  I've looked at the binaries on both
the
> SoGE website (up through 8c), as well as the files that used to be on
> the BioTeam website but have since been moved or removed.  The bin
file
> from the BioTeam site dated March 25 had files in them named libdb-4*.
> I tried that one, and it did work as a drop in replacement for the
> version I'd been previously using, which I think was 6.2u5.  By drop
in,
> I mean I can unzip them in place and let the new files overwrite the
> old.  The problem is that there's a bug in every version I've had that
> causes reservations for a complex I've created (for flex-grid) to be
> ignored.  That part may sound familiar.  I've got reason to believe
that
> the bug may have been fixed in the July timeframe, so I'm looking for
> binaries that are dated post July.  They're out there, but in every
case
> I've found, the libdb4* files are missing from the bin directory, and
> qmaster won't start with the ones from my current installation.  Chris
> Dagdigian thinks they might have changed something in a file that
> controls the build, but hasn't had time to confirm.  I don't feel
> confident in compiling myself at all, let alone trying to find the
> reason why these files are being excluded from the most recent builds.

I don't understand what's the problem with installing the packages, and
why they appear different to any others that typically need installing
from outside the Red Hat distribution.  If you don't trust the binaries,
it's as simple as

rpmbuild --rebuild gridengine-8.0.0b-1.src.rpm

and yum install'ing any missing packages, like db4-devel, it complains
about.  (The 8.0.0c version has a mistaken gcc flag which requires the
compiler from the RH5 gcc44 package.)  There's nothing fundamentally
different from the old EPEL packages except mine install in /opt/sge by
default and don't try to set up SGE.


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