Also, is you pull from the SVN repository, you must issue ./prepare before trying to configure.
Becky On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 9:47 AM, Mike Marshall <[email protected]> wrote: > These packages (I'm looking at them from an rpm package manager > perspective) will probably be enough to enable you to build a > working configure: > > $ rpm -qa | grep m4 > m4-1.4.17-8.fc23.x86_64 > $ rpm -qa | grep autoconf > autoconf-2.69-21.fc23.noarch > $ rpm -qa | grep automake > automake-1.15-4.fc23.noarch > $ rpm -qa | grep libtool > libtool-ltdl-2.4.6-8.fc23.x86_64 > > When I run configure on a new machine, sometimes configure fails > for lack of some package or other... if that happens to you anywhere > along the path of running configure for Orangefs, just try to figure out > how to "yum install" (or whatever package manager your Linux uses) > the missing part and run configure again... The configure script > will give you helpful hints as to what dependency caused it to > fail. If you didn't configure your Linux instance as a > "development platform" (or something similar) you might find that you > have to install several things, like flex or bison, to get configure to run > all the way through... > > The out-of-tree kernel module needs to work with its matching > userspace part (don't mix 2.9.3 kernel module with 2.9.4 Orangefs > userspace), but the upstream version of the kernel module will > probably work with 2.9.3 and beyond, certainly with 2.9.4 and > beyond... > > Orangefs is real easy to compile, configure and turn on/off, especially > after you have done it a couple of times, good luck! > > -Mike > > > On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 8:27 AM, Boyd Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > > We are working to release 2.9.5 (2.9.4 was a release we did in > conjunction > > with EMC and the 2TIERS project, so was not a fully tested public > release). > > We are getting extremely close to 2.9.5, so you can grab a copy of trunk > out > > of svn and it should have what you need. > > > > -b > > > > On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 2:19 AM David Humphreys > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> I have become aware of orangefs only as a result of its integration with > >> the latest kernel release. > >> I have been tracking ceph for a long time, but have not found it to be > >> very user friendly: difficult to manage and difficult to make work in a > >> robust way. > >> Orangefs seems to provide some similar functionality, and my initial > >> experiments yesterday seemed to confirm usability. > >> The problem that I find is that the latest release (2.9.3) does not seem > >> to contain kernel module code that will build with current kernels (my > >> attempts failed, and references are made to 2.6.x series, and stuff has > >> changed, I think, at 4.0). > >> This shouldn't matter with 4.6, because orangefs is included by Linus. > >> However when trying to mount an orangefs share the mount command hangs, > and > >> dmesg shows that the kernel is complaining that userspace declares > version > >> 20903, but 20904 is required. > >> (those numbers from memory of yesterday, and not on the screen in front > of > >> me now, but I'm sure that I have not misremembered). > >> It looks like we might need a 2.9.4 release? I tried compiling the svn > >> version, but couldn't overcome the lack of an 'autogen.sh' to do the > right > >> autotools suff to make a working 'configure'. > >> I hope someone can help me put the 4.6 kernel orangefs to the test. > >> Thank you in anticipation. > >> David > >> > >> Sent from my Sony Xperia™ smartphone > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Pvfs2-users mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://www.beowulf-underground.org/mailman/listinfo/pvfs2-users > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Pvfs2-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://www.beowulf-underground.org/mailman/listinfo/pvfs2-users > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pvfs2-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.beowulf-underground.org/mailman/listinfo/pvfs2-users >
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