[DRBD-user] Compiling 9 from Source?

Roland Kammerer roland.kammerer at linbit.com
Sat Jul 16 22:06:30 CEST 2016

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.


On Sat, Jul 16, 2016 at 02:44:56PM +0000, Eric Robinson wrote:
> I'm probably the billionth person to ask this, but why does the DRBD 9
> user guide have section called "Building and Installing," but the
> instructions for building are missing and there is no configure script
> or build tools in the source tarball? I have Centos 6.3 and drbd is
> not found in the epel repo, so I am trying to build 9 from source like
> I have done a zillion times before with 8, but it seems that linbit
> doesn't want people building it from source. So why is there a source
> tarball anyway? I'm so confused!

<tinfoil hat>
Yes, these damn LINBIT people, it is all a conspiracy, they give you the
source and don't want you to build it!!1!.
</tinfoil hat>

But I was able to leak that top secret information and can tell you how
we do it internally: We type "make" (and install the kernel headers
before)...

Regards, rck



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