[lustre-discuss] Lustre Client on Fedora 23

[Michael Watters]

Has anybody been able to build the lustre client on Fedora 23 or 24?  
I'm getting a compile error when I attempt to build the SRPM for 2.8.0 
which is shown here.

http://paste.fedoraproject.org/437345/77178147/

Adding "-fPIC" to the optflags in the spec file also did not help, the 
build then fails with a different error as follows.

EXTRA_KCFLAGS: -include /root/rpmbuild/BUILD/lustre-2.8.0/undef.h -include /root/rpmbuild/BUILD/lustre-2.8.0/config.h  -g -I/root/rpmbuild/BUILD/lustre-2.8.0/libcfs/include -I/root/rpmbuild/BUILD/lustre-2.8.0/lnet/include -I/root/rpmbuild/BUILD/lustre-2.8.0/lustre/include

Type 'make' to build Lustre.

+ make -j12 -s

Making all in .

/root/rpmbuild/BUILD/lustre-2.8.0/lnet/lnet/api-ni.c:1:0: error: code model kernel does not support PIC mode

  /*

  ^

/root/rpmbuild/BUILD/lustre-2.8.0/lustre/fid/fid_request.c:1:0: error: code model kernel does not support PIC mode

  /*

  ^

/root/rpmbuild/BUILD/lustre-2.8.0/lustre/fld/fld_request.c:1:0: error: code model kernel does not support PIC mode

  /*

  ^

scripts/Makefile.build:289: recipe for target '/root/rpmbuild/BUILD/lustre-2.8.0/lnet/lnet/api-ni.o' failed

make[6]: *** [/root/rpmbuild/BUILD/lustre-2.8.0/lnet/lnet/api-ni.o] Error 1

/root/rpmbuild/BUILD/lustre-2.8.0/lustre/llite/dcache.c:1:0: error: code model kernel does not support PIC mode

  /*


Do I need to build the client from source or use a different lustre 
version?  My servers are all running 2.8.0 on CentOS 7 however we run 
Fedora on our workstations which doesn't have a native client package.