How to build a Lustre client for Rocky 8.10, I encountered issues during the build process.

[AndrewTsao]

Greetings, I have encountered the following issue while attempting to construct a Lustre client on Rocky 8.10. The official repository only provides a precompiled version 2.15.2 for RedHat 8.7 with support for IB network cards. During my build process, I stumbled upon an error when executing 'make rpms'. I wonder if you have ever faced such a predicament, as I followed the official method for the build. The error message is as follows.

cp $rpmbuilddir/SRPMS/lustre-2.15.6-*.src.rpm . || exit 1; \
rm -rf $rpmbuilddir
make[1]: Entering directory '/root/lustre-release'
make[1]: Leaving directory '/root/lustre-release'
error: line 243: Dependency tokens must begin with alpha-numeric, '_' or '/': BuildRequires: %kernel_module_package_buildreqs
make: *** [autoMakefile:1280: srpm] Error 1

My build commands is as follows,

git checkout v2_15_6
 sh autogen.sh
./configure --disable-server --enable-client --with-linux=/usr/src/kernels/4.18.0-553.40.1.el8_10.x86_64/ --with-o2ib=/usr/src/ofa_kernel/default --with-spec=redhat
make
make rpms

[DetlevCM]

...it wasn't that hard - is what I thought before embarking on a search... (Because I first built lustre client rpms for our servers, though without infiniband).

Well, a few headaches later it seems you'll need two more packages:

The first one will take care of the kenel macros that rpmbuild cannot find.

dnf install kernel-rpm-macros

Then you'll encounter an error referencing kernel-abi-whitelists that do not exist on Rocky 8.10... Howere there are kernel-abio-stablelists and the code happily seems to build the rpms with these two additional packages installed.

dnf install kernel-abi-stablelists.noarch

I hope this helps? Good luck!

[AndrewTsao]

Thank you for your patience. I'll give it a try now.

[AndrewTsao]

I'm glad the package installation solved the issue and you were able to successfully generate the RPM package.