[SCore-users] Installing Score on RedHat 7.2

[Bogdan Costescu]

On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Daniel Pfenniger wrote:

> Has anybody succeeded to install it on a RedHat 7.2 system? 

Yes, on a fully updated (as of end of last year) Red Hat 7.2 system. 
However, I have used a test kernel from Red Hat (from Rawhide) based on 
2.4.16. The 2.4.10 kernel (for which a patch is included in the SCore 
distribution) has known problems w.r.t. VM subsystem; only 2.4.13 and 
later can be considered stable from this point of view.

> If yes, are the modification trivial or not? 

So an so. The kernel patch applied almost without rejects (well, given its 
size, anyway); I also applied lm_sensors patch to the kernel before the 
SCore patch, so the rejects might have been caused by it (the Red Hat 
kernel includes an older version of lm_sensors). Anyway, the rejects were 
easy to add by hand.
The software installation was not so easy. SCore distribution only 
includes RPMs and source (tar.gz), but neither source RPMs nor spec files 
in the tar.gz, so there is no easy way to rebuild everything the same way 
as the provided RPMs. However, the compilation "by hand" (tar zxf, make, 
make install) works pretty well. There are some places where files are not 
were they should be according to the docs (f.e. on the Providing Optional 
Compilers page there is a mention of "/opt/score/src/driver" directory 
which is actually "/opt/score/src/score-4.2.1.core/driver") or some config 
files need to be modified before compilation but they are created only 
at "make install" time. Probably the best way is to install everything 
with the default options first then start looking for configuration and 
re-compile.

I'd be glad to hear other experience(s) in this direction.

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Bogdan Costescu

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