Hi Michael,
Thanks a lot for the hints for building an NHC RPM. I confirm that this
works for me.
As I wrote below "perhaps trivial to some of you, and stumbling blocks to
others" :-) Could you kindly add your instructions to
https://github.com/mej/nhc?tab=readme-ov-file#installation ?
IMHO, the below commands "git clone ... ; git switch dev" ought to be
documented as well - again for the benefit of those of us not well versed
in Git and GNU Autotools.
Best regards,
Ole
On 8/25/25 21:50, Jennings, Michael E via slurm-users wrote:
Hi guys!
NHC builds like any other GNU Autotools-based package: |./autogen.sh
<configure-args> && make dist|
That's all you need to do to generate the correct tarball. From there, |
rpmbuild -ta |is one option. I use Mezzanine tools, so I just run
mzbuild. So whenever I go to build new RPMs for the production teams, all
I have to do is "|./autogen.sh && make dist && mzbuild"||[1], or the
(mostly) equivalent "||./autogen.sh && make dist && rpmbuild -ta lbnl-
nhc-1.5.tar.gz||", either of which spits out the RPM and SRPM for me.|
|Hope this helps!|
|Michael|
|1: Technically, this is a lie. What I |*|actually|* run is this: "|./
autogen.sh && make distcheck && zbuild|" The "check" part ensures that
everything is set up correctly for out-of-tree builds, cross compiling,
etc. But that's something only I really need to worry about. The |
zbuild| command is actually from yet another project; it allows me to
build for multiple distributions at once by leveraging containers. But
again, not something the average person would care about.
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*From:* Otto, Frank via slurm-users <[email protected]>
*Sent:* Friday, August 22, 2025 06:20
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Hi Ole,
this looks similar to what I've been doing for building RPMs. (It's
documented for our in-house branch at [1], if anyone wants to compare.)
Happy to see I'm not doing something totally stupid. :)
[1] https://github.com/UCL-ARC/nhc/blob/ucl/README.md <https://
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Frank
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*Sent:* 22 August 2025 12:17
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On 8/19/25 21:25, Jennings, Michael E via slurm-users wrote:
Have you by chance given the `dev` branch a try? All our production servers currently run `lbnl-nhc-1.5-0.82.gf8dc.el8.noarch` built from the `dev` branch, have been for some time now, and it's been rock solid. Our RHEL-based clusters also use this version. Our HPE/Cray Shasta clusters, including our largest (classified) clusters
Crossroads, Tycho, and Venado, use a variant. (Long story short, I've
merged in all my changes into a separate branch, but the reverse is not
yet true.) This variant is, at present, COS/SLES-specific, but it has
quite a few useful additional checks (many of them Cray-centric)
contributed by other LANL folks that I haven't had a chance to upstream yet.
Due to Michael's recommendation I wanted to try out the 'dev' branch
version 1.5 of NHC and build an RPM package referred to by Michael.
Since I'm not a software developer, I had to figure out for myself the
detailed building steps - perhaps trivial to some of you, and stumbling
blocks to others. This is what I came up with:
$ git clone https://github.com/mej/nhc.git <https://
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$ cd nhc
$ git switch dev # Switch to the 'dev' branch
$ git status # Check the status
$ grep nhc_version configure.ac <https://
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m4_define([nhc_version], [1.5])
$ ./autogen.sh <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?
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aijV5f2Er5oJkEvwXkn7lZWNNdMUg3%24&data=05%7C02%7Cole.h.nielsen%40fysik.dtu.dk%7C1aaf58dc6c7b45fcc86808dde41389d6%7Cf251f123c9ce448e927734bb285911d9%7C0%7C0%7C638917494830106572%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=dpgWt79RIF96kI6kH%2BKGRuH4jD1t%2BymzwPXdPH4%2BJJs%3D&reserved=0> # Undocumented build requirement
$ cd ..
$ mv nhc lbnl-nhc-1.5 # Rename the source folder
$ tar czf lbnl-nhc-1.5.tar.gz lbnl-nhc-1.5
$ rpmbuild -ta lbnl-nhc-1.5.tar.gz
The resulting RPM package is:
~/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch/lbnl-nhc-1.5-0.82.gf8dc.el8.noarch.rpm
I've added those steps to my Slurm Wiki page:
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