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

[Jon Zhu]

Thanks, Richard, I will give it a shot.

Regards,

-Jon.



On Nov 29, 2011, at 19:14, Richard Henwood <rhenwood at whamcloud.com> wrote:

> 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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