Re: [Condor-users] Best combination of Distro/Kernel/compiler/libc/condor

[Steffen Grunewald <steffen.grunewald@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 11:57:55AM -0600, Peter Keller wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 08:46:52PM -0800, Junaid N. Sahibzada wrote:
> >  the problem comes when i try to link my application with the condor libraries.
> >  it gives a lot of errors like the following
> >  
> >  Building executable /nfs/mid/homes/sah006/condor_app/vtkCISG/Output/bin/vtkSegProp...
> >  /usr/lib/condor/libcondorzsyscall.a(switches.special.o)(.text+0x1b0): In function `__getdents':
> >  : multiple definition of `__getdents'
> >  /usr/lib/condor/libcondor_c.a(getdents.o)(.text+0x0): first defined here
> >  /usr/bin/ld: Warning: size of symbol `__getdents' changed from 753 in /usr/lib/condor/libcondor_c.a(getdents.o) to 37 in /usr/lib/condor/libcondor_c.a(getdents.o)
> 
> >  and is any one using condor on Debian?
> >  also i would like to know if condor6.6 and later are supported in Debian or not.
> 
> Technically, we at Condor only support SuSE, Redhat, and Fedora
> distributions of Condor. This is due to the high cost of porting Condor
> and many varied linux distributions. We predict that Condor will run on
> a lot of other linux distros, but sometimes it happens that it can't.
> 
> However, for Debian, it has been known to work before, but I would try
> the most recent 6.7.x release of Condor for that platform. I would say
> to use the dynamic RH9 binaries for this platform.

I can confirm:

@merlin:~/BOINC$ condor_version
$CondorVersion: 6.7.6 Mar 15 2005 $
$CondorPlatform: I386-LINUX_RH9 $
@merlin:~/BOINC$ ldd `which condor_q`
        libresolv.so.2 => /lib/libresolv.so.2 (0x40029000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x4003b000)
        libstdc++.so.5 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 (0x4003f000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x400f9000)
        libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x4011b000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40124000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)

although we're only using vanilla universe and dagman. Noone ever tried
to condor_compile (with a pool of 180 dual nodes, checkpointing other
than local is futile, and the machines are dedicated to Condor anyway)

I'm working (in a somewhat lazy manner: if it's not broken, don't fix it)
on packaging the latest Condor release for Debian i386 (and perhaps amd64),
and am very optimistic it will run :)

Cheers,
 Steffen

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