[SCore-users] RedHat 9.0 installation

[Jens Klaas]

Hi list,
did somebody of you already try a binary  install of Score 5.4 on a RedHat 9.0 
box? 
I get the following error, if I try to do a bininstall -server.


root at mini score.rpm]# ./bininstall -server
warning: package score5.4.0-user = 5.4.0-1 was already added, replacing with 
score5.4.0-user <= 5.4.0-1
error: Failed dependencies:
        libtcl.so.0 is needed by score5.4.0-pbs-user-5.4.0-1
        libtk.so.0 is needed by score5.4.0-pbs-user-5.4.0-1

Linking the libtcl.so to libtcl.so.0 and libtk.so to libtk.so.0 doesn't help.
To copy the libraries from a RH 7.3, doesn't help either.

What means,......5.4.0-1 was already added? I didn't install score5.4.0-user 
before,.... no idea what the system is talkting of. :-/

cu
	Jens



On Wednesday 05 November 2003 12:24, Rafal Metkowski wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Ulrich Oelmann wrote:
> > Hi list,
> >
> > we are currently powering our 56 node single Athlon cluster using
> > SCore 5.0.1 under Red Hat 7.2. As Red Hat will not maintain the 7.2
> > release after december 2003 we are thinking of a reinstallation of our
> > hole system. Because our desktop systems are running a SuSE
> > distribution we are considering to change to the recent SuSE 9.0
> > concerning our cluster, but before this can become more concrete I
> > would like to ask you some SCore-related questions:
> >
> >   o Does anybody know of complications that we will be confronted with
> >     other than that
> >       - of course there are no pre-compiled binary SCore-RPMs for SuSE
> >         so we have to install from the SCore sources.
> >       - we have to downgrade the kernels of the computing nodes from
> >         SuSEs patched 2.4.21 to vanilla 2.4.19 with SCore 5.4 patches.
> >
> >   o Does anybody already successfuly operate his cluster under one of
> >     the newer SuSE releases?
> >
> >   o When is the next SCore version roughly going to be released? If it
> >     is in the near future it could be worthwhile to wait for this new
> >     release instead of using SCore 5.4!
> >
> >   o Will that version still be based on kernel series 2.4 or are you
> >     planning to make the jump to the 2.6 kernel series after this
> >     linux branch is created?
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any answer to any of these questions!
>
> I have no experience with SCore installation on SuSe but I have installed
> SCore 5.4 on RedHat 9 and maybe my notes will be helpful.
> It wasn't very easy to compile SCore on RH9 since RH9 contains many
> 'improvements' :-) Some of the changes are related to the RedHat 9 itself
> some of them were made in accompanying libraries.
> I have made some modification in SCore source tree. Some of them are
> not very sophisticated and should be done in more elegant way.
>
> Here they are step by step:
> 1) copy score-src/SCore/build/config/i386-redhat8-linux2_4 to
> score-src/SCore/build/config/i386-redhat-linux2_4 and change: XLIB = -lXext
> -lX11 -ldl
> to
> XLIB = -lXext -lX11 -ldl -lpthread
> in score-src/SCore/build/config/i386-redhat-linux2_4
> Generally you have to add -lpthread in all places where X libraries are
> used. Without that there were undefined symbols related to threads.
> I have also made this modification to:
> score-src/runtime/mpi/mpich-1.2.0/src/mpe/configure
> score-src/runtime/mpi/mpich-1.2.4/src/mpe/configure
>
> 2) copy directory score-src/SCore/rc/i386-redhat8-linux2_4/ to
>    score-src/SCore/rc/i386-redhat-linux2_4/
>
> 3) replace type 'boolean' with 'bfd_boolean' and 'false' with 'FALSE'
> in file score-src/SCore/mttl-ult/ult/heterosetup.c
>
> 4) replace 'extern int errno;' declaration with '#include <errno.h>' in
> files score-src/contrib/flab/program/openpbs/src/src/lib/Liblog/pbs_log.c
> score-src/contrib/flab/program/openpbs/src/src/server/svr_connect.c
> score-src/program/pbs/src/src/lib/Liblog/pbs_log.c
> score-src/program/pbs/src/src/server/svr_connect.c
>
> There were no problems with kernel downgrade on compute nodes.

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