Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED)
- How To Build OFED 1.5
+ How To Build OFED 1.5.1
- December 2009
+ March 2010
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1. Overview
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-The script "build_ofed.sh" is used to build the OFED package based on the
-OpenFabrics project. The package is built under the current working directory.
+The script "build.pl" is used to build the OFED package based on the
+OpenFabrics project. The package is built under /tmp directory.
See OFED_release_notes.txt for more details.
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The build script for the OFED package can be downloaded from:
- git://git.openfabrics.org/~vlad/ofabuild
- branch: ofed_1_5
+ git://git.openfabrics.org/~vlad/build.git
+ branch: master
-Name: build_ofed.sh
+Name: build.pl
- Usage: build_ofed.sh --ver|-v <OFED version>
- [--tmpdir <tmpdir to use as a work area>]
- [--ofed-scripts <path to ofed scripts directory>]
- [--ofed-docs <path to ofed docs directory>]
- [--mpidir|-m <path to mpi directory>]
- [--long-help]
+Usage: ./build.pl --version <version> [-r|--release]|[--daily] [-d|--distribution <distribution name>] [-v|--verbose]
+ [-b|--builddir <build directory>]
+ [-p|--packagesdir <packages directory>]
+ [--pre-build <pre-build script>]
+ [--skip-prebuild]
+ [--post-build <post-build script>]
+ [--skip-postbuild]
Example:
- ./build_ofed.sh --ver 1.5-rc7
+ ./build.pl --version 1.5.1-rc1 -p packages-ofed
- This command will create a package (i.e., subtree) called OFED-1.5-rc7
- in the current working directory.
+ This command will create a package (i.e., subtree) called OFED-1.5.1-rc1
+ under /tmp/$USER/
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3. Requirements
automake - "http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.9.6.tar.gz"
m4 - "http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/m4/m4-1.4.4.tar.gz"
+3. wget or ssh slient