Lustre 1.6 Operations Manual

4.3.2.2 Liblustre
The Lustre library client, liblustre, relies on libsysio, which is a library that provides
POSIX-like file and name space support for remote filesystems from the application
program address space. Libsysio can be obtained at the SourceForge website:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/libsysio/
Caution – Remember that liblustre is not for general use. It was created to work
with specific hardware (Cray), and should NEVER be used with other hardware.
Development of libsysio has continued ever since it was first targeted for use with
Lustre. First, check out the b_lustre branch from the libsysio repository. This gives
the version of libsysio compatible with Lustre.
To build libsysio, run:
$ sh autogen.sh
$ ./configure --with-sockets
$ make
To build liblustre, run:
$ ./configure --with-lib –with-sysio=/path/to/libsysio/source
$ make
Compiler Choice
The compiler must be greater than GCC version 3.3.4. Currently, GCC v4.0 is not
supported. GCC v3.3.4 has been used to successfully compile available pre-packaged
releases, and it is the only officially-supported compiler. You may have mixed results
with other compilers or even with other GCC versions.
Note – GCC v3.3.4 was used to build 2.6 series kernels.
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