Building gLExec and its gLite dependencies from SVN source

This page explains the steps needed to build gLite tools, in particular gLExec and its LCMAPS and LCAS dependencies directly from the source in CVS.

Prerequisites: Globus and global settings

At this point we depend on a (binary) globus installation. For the following OSes it can be found in the Etics repositories:

• RedHat-4 32 bits (also for SL(C)-4 and Centos-4): globus-4.0.3-VDT-1.6.1-7.tar.gz
• RedHat5 64 bits (also for SL(C)-5 and Centos-5): globus-4.0.7-VDT-1.10.1-1.tar.gz
• OpenSUSE 11 64 bits: globus-4.0.7-VDT-1.10.1-1.tar.gz
• Debian-5 64 bits: globus-4.0.8-VDT-2.0.0-2.tar.gz

Set the following exports:

export globus_flav=gcc32

or

export globus_flav=gcc64

And additionally, adapted to personal taste:

export source=/tmp/source       # Where to download sources
export globus=/tmp/build/globus # Where to install globus
export glite=/tmp/build/glite   # Where to find glite builds
export prefix=${glite}          # Where to install glite builds

Make sure ${source} exists.

Since all these tarballs assume installation in /opt/globus unpack and 'relocate' as follows:

mkdir -p ${globus} && \
cd ${globus} && \
tar -zxf <globus tarball> && \
find -type f -name \*.la|while read file;do
    sed s+/opt/globus+${globus}+g ${file} > ${file}.new && \
        mv -f ${file}.new ${file}
done