[gin-auth] The new VOMS Server for GIN is active from now

[Oscar Koeroo]

Hi,

Small detail, Dollars and Pounds are diffrent currency!

£GLOBUS_LOCATION/include/  is not equal to  $GLOBUS_LOCATION/include/

cheers,

    Oscar


Vincenzo Ciaschini wrote:

> Cindy Zheng wrote:
>
>> Thank you, Vincenzo, for your reply!
>> We are running Rocks which has GT4 already build-in. I believe it's 
>> NMI distribution. To be sure, better have our Rocks expert, Mason, to 
>> answer your questions.
>> Mason, could you answer Vincenzo's questions?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Cindy
>>
> Hi Cindy,
>
>    I think I have a pretty good understanding of what the problem is, 
> and of a solution to it, along with a (admittedly ugly) workaround 
> while we commit the solution.
>
> Explanation:
>    Normally, the $GLOBUS_LOCATION/include/ directory contains a 
> subdirectory for each globus flavor.  No packaging of globus we tested 
> had the ldap_backend directory there.  The ./configure script takes 
> advantage of this to discover what flavors are present.  Clearly, the 
> presence of ldap_backend messes things up.
>
> The solution:
>    We will rewrite the configure.ac script to take into account the 
> possible presence of the ldap_backend directory.
>
> The workaround:
>    While waiting for the new release, you can do the following to 
> compile anyway:
>
> 1) mv $GLOBUS_LOCATION/include/ldap_backend $GLOBUS_LOCATION/
> 2) do the normal build cycle (configure/make/make install)
> 3) mv $GLOBUS_LOCATION/ldap_backend £GLOBUS_LOCATION/include/
>
> Bye,
>    Vincenzo
>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Vincenzo Ciaschini [mailto:vincenzo.ciaschini at cnaf.infn.it] 
>>> Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 12:01 AM
>>> To: zhengc at sdsc.edu
>>> Cc: 'Yusuke Tanimura'; 'Oscar Koeroo'; gin-auth at ggf.org; 'Olivier 
>>> van der Aa'; 'Philip Papadopoulos'; 'Catlett Charlie'; 'David 
>>> Colling'; m.aggarwal at imperial.ac.uk; yoshio.tanaka at aist.go.jp; 'Dane 
>>> Skow'; 'JP Navarro'; 'Arzberger Peter'; fplin at nchc.org.tw; 'Mason Katz'
>>> Subject: Re: [gin-auth] The new VOMS Server for GIN is active from now
>>>
>>>
>>> Cindy Zheng wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi, Vincenzo,
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Cindy,
>>>
>>>
>>>> Following you and Yusuke's discussion, I downloaded
>>>>
>>>
>>> http://glite.web.cern.ch/glite/packages/R1.5/N20060303/src/gli
>>
>>
>> te-security-vo
>>
>>> ms-1.6.20_src.tar.gz
>>> ran configure and make, then encountered an error (below) with make. 
>>> I'm also attaching the full log with command lines. The target 
>>> cluster is a rocks 4.1 cluster, running
>>> GT4. Appreciate any help. Let me know if you need more info.
>>>
>>> Cindy
>>
>>
>> Here is the problem, taken from the output of configure:
>>
>>> checking for GLOBUS flavors... found  gcc32dbg gcc32dbgpthr
>>
>>
>> ldap_backend (gcc32dbg selected)
>>
>> As you can see, ldap_backend is discovered as a flavor even though it 
>> obviously is not one.   I'd have to say this is the first time something
>>
>> like this happens. What version of globus have you installed ?  And 
>> was it taken from the globus site or from some other packaging?
>>
>> Bye,
>>     Vincenzo
>>