[LU-2658] Building a patchless client on ubuntu 12.04

• Type: Improvement
• Resolution: Fixed
• Priority: Major
• Fix Version/s: Lustre 2.4.0
• Affects Version/s: Lustre 2.4.0
• Labels: LB

Environment

### lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS
Release: 12.04
Codename: precise

### uname -a
Linux tltest 3.2.0-23-generic #36-Ubuntu SMP Tue Apr 10 20:39:51 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

• Assignee: Minh Diep
• Reporter: Thomas Lorenzen

Description

Hi'

The quest is to build a patchless lustre client for the ubuntu platform, in this case the 12.04 version. Configuring of lustre thus takes place with option --disable-server.

As expected, 2.3.0 does not compile nicely, since 2.3.0 is not linux-3.x.y aware. However, I take note, that there has over autumn last year been activities in making lustre linux-3.x.y aware.

From git I have downloaded tag 2.3.58 (1f77320), and that fails to compile as well, but going a step backward to tag 2.3.57 (fad209e) was a successful compilation experience, and I now have a lustre client running based on that tag.

For your information, the compile of tag 2.3.58 fails at the following spot, and it would be great, if this could be fixed for tag post2.3.58.

/home/tl/source/lustre-release-1f77320/lustre/llite/file.c: In function ‘ll_file_seek’:
/home/tl/source/lustre-release-1f77320/lustre/llite/file.c:2036:8: error: too many arguments to function ‘generic_file_llseek_size’
/home/tl/source/linux-headers-3.2.0-23-generic/include/linux/fs.h:2451:15: note: declared here

Best regards.

Thomas.