If you have previously installed OVS with a 'make install', it can go in /usr/local. One way to confirm that is by running: find /usr -name ovs-vsctl . If you see 2 of them, that is the cause.
On Thu, 20 Sep 2018 at 12:25, Martin Xu <martinxu9....@gmail.com> wrote: > I’m going through it now. I’ll let you know if I figured out something. So > far I stumbled upon the PIC flag thing, I’m going through your other emails > as well. > > Martin > > On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 11:35 AM Paul Greenberg <green...@outlook.com> > wrote: > >> Hi Martin, >> >> I always use the same process. It described here >> https://truesdn.blogspot.com/2018/08/how-to-compile-open-virtual-network-ovn.html?m=1 >> >> Regards, >> Paul >> >> Best Regards, >> Paul Greenberg >> >> ------------------------------ >> *From:* Martin Xu <martinxu9....@gmail.com> >> *Sent:* Thursday, September 20, 2018 2:19 PM >> *To:* Gregory Rose; Ben Pfaff >> *Cc:* green...@outlook.com; b...@openvswitch.org >> *Subject:* Re: [ovs-discuss] line 17: >> /usr/local/share/openvswitch/scripts/ovs-lib: No such file or directory >> >> I don't think so. At least I didn't directly change anything related to >> this. Do you guys mind sharing the exact commands you used to build the >> RPM? I've tried building with the fedora spec file. I don't see it on mine >> after installation. >> >> Sorry I'm replying out of order here, but I agree with Ben's email below. >> That seems to be the problem. I looked through some of our code. >> >> The fedora spec file uses this macro %{_datadir} as the path prefix, and >> this could evaluate to /usr/share/ but can be overwritten or be something >> else on a particular system. That line 17 in ovs-kmod-ctl is written as >> this, >> >> . "@pkgdatadir@/scripts/ovs-lib" || exit 1 >> >> At build time, the @pkgdatadir@ in some of our files (ovs-kmod-ctl is >> one of them) are being replaced. I haven't figured out exactly how to put >> my own string in there through configuration so that my installation goes >> into /usr/share and this string is replaced by /usr/local/share. I think >> basically that's problem seen here. Maybe some of the folks from redhat >> might know. Or if I can duplicate the issue myself, I might be able to >> figure out why. >> >> Martin >> On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 5:23 PM Gregory Rose <gvrose8...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> On 9/14/2018 3:36 PM, Paul Greenberg wrote: >>> > Running the latest: >>> > >>> > >>> https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs/commit/cd2c1d3b1e03b41f0e2c964fcbdb1e82cde7c794 >>> > >>> > An attempt to start "ovs-vswitchd.service" fails: >>> > >>> > ovs-ctl[2078]: /usr/share/openvswitch/scripts/ovs-kmod-ctl: line 17: >>> /usr/local/share/openvswitch/scripts/ovs-lib: No such file or directory >>> > >>> > The "/usr/local/share/openvswitch/scripts/ovs-lib" does not exists, >>> but "/usr/share/openvswitch/scripts/ovs-lib" >>> > >>> > Once I amended the line 17 to >>> "/usr/share/openvswitch/scripts/ovs-lib", things started working. >>> >>> Martin, >>> >>> I'm seeing this as well - do you think it's related to your recent >>> changes? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> - Greg >>> >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > discuss mailing list >>> > disc...@openvswitch.org >>> > https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-discuss >>> >>> _______________________________________________ > discuss mailing list > disc...@openvswitch.org > https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-discuss >
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