[LU-2752] Enhance build for cross compilation for the Intel(R) Xeon Phi(TM) card

• Type: Improvement
• Resolution: Fixed
• Priority: Minor
• Fix Version/s: Lustre 2.4.0
• Affects Version/s: Lustre 2.4.0
• Assignee: Dmitry Eremin (Inactive)
• Reporter: Dmitry Eremin (Inactive)

Description

Current Lustre build is not support cross compilation for the
Intel(R) Xeon Phi(TM) card. So, producing binaries
for MIC card is not trivial now and required manual changes of
sources. It would be very beneficial to provide an easy way to
produce client binaries for the Intel(R) Xeon Phi(TM) card
directly from GIT repository just specifying appropriate
--host and --build option for ./configure script.

For example, to produce Lustre binaries for MIC card just execute
the following:

./configure --host=x86_64-k1om-linux --build=x86_64-pc-linux

Issue Links

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