[Lustre-discuss] lustre dkms modules

[Andreas Dilger]

On Sep 02, 2009  16:55 +1000, Nathan Norton wrote:
> I would like to build the lustre kernel modules via dkms so modules get rebuilt on kernel upgrades.
> 
> My current system is centos 5.3 with lustre 1.6.7.2 
> 
> I have been trying to build the modules using the dkms framework, however it fails.
> 
> If I try the dkms system it copies the src tree to /var/lib/dkms/lustre/1.6.7.2/build then builds
> 
> It gets to a point where it fails,
> /var/lib/dkms/lustre/1.6.7.2/build/libsysio/lib/ is empty, however the file gets created back in the original location
> /usr/src/lustre-1.6.7.2/libsysio/lib/libsysio.a 
> 
> Has anyone seen this issue before, and got around it for building the dkms package?

Probably need to re-run configure or config.status in the new directory
before building.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.