[Lustre-discuss] Lustre v2.1 RHEL 6.1 build does not work

[Richard Henwood]

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Brian J. Murrell <brian at whamcloud.com> wrote:
> On 11-11-29 03:51 PM, Jon Zhu wrote:
>> Cool. BTW, is it possible to rebuild the Lustre client driver from source,
>
> Sure.
>
>> just like what's been described in following:
>> http://wiki.whamcloud.com/display/PUB/Rebuilding+the+Lustre-client+rpms+for+a+new+kernel
>
> Well, not exactly.  RPM != DEB.
>
>> If that's possible, where to grab the kernel source ****.src.deb?
>
> You don't.  DEBs are packaged as source tarballs with a /debian
> directory in them in which you typically do dpkg-buildpackage.  But that
> assumes a clean separation of modules and userspace, which the lustre
> source does not have, unfortunately.
>
> So, to rebuild the DEB you grab the source tree (i.e. from git) or
> tarball (and unpack it) and then run:
>
> $ configure [arguemnts]
> $ make debs
>

There is an open bug (http://jira.whamcloud.com/browse/LU-788) that
means you may need to stick a

'make'

between 'configure' and 'make debs'

It would be great if you could confirm to this list or the bug;
cheers,
Richard

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