[Beowulf] quickie OFED build question

[Joe Landman]

Joe Landman wrote:
> Will ask this on the OFED mailing lists in a bit, but has anyone 
> successfully built OFED 1.x against OpenSuSE 10.2 ?
> 
> I have 1.0, 1.1, and 1.2-rc2 failing.  Works on OpenSuSE 10.1.  Nature 
> of the problem appears to be some kernel changes between versions 
> (2.6.16 vs 2.6.18) that pulled some specific things out.  Also, I want 
> to turn off the -m32 switch usage, badly.  Any clues/patches out there? 
>  Google hasn't been very helpful here (must be searching for wrong things).

So the answer is ... update the kernel.

2.6.18 in the OpenSuSE 10.2 flavor is not compatible (currently) with 
OFED-1.2 (nightly, past rc2).

Looks like they are focussing on specific RH/SuSE builds.  Haven't seen 
it on Debian/Ubuntu.

Built it on OpenSuSe with updated 2.6.20.11 kernel.  Thought you would 
like to know.

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