Globus Toolkit 2.4: Platform Notes

All platforms
- Platforms that do not provide /dev/random or /dev/urandom may want to install EGD-The Entropy Gathering Daemon for increased security. Use the environment variable EGD_PATH to specify the absolute path to the EDG socket.
- If you are installing from source bundles and use gcc compiled with shared support libraries (e.g. libgcc), please make sure that the dynamic linker's default search path covers these libraries.
- gcc may have /usr/local/include in the default system header search path. This can cause a compile failure in Cyrus SASL.
IRIX 6.5
- /bin/sh has problems with respect to calls to exit in sourced files. This mangles -help output.
Solaris 8
- When building from source, make sure that ld is /usr/ccs/bin/ld.
Solaris 7
- select() will block indefinitely when used on devices. This will for example cause a hang when running something like globus-url-copy gsiftp://localhost/etc/group file://dev/null
- Some versions of Solaris 7 have a linker that is incompatible with gcc. See http://gcc.gnu.org/install/specific.html#sparc-sun-solaris2.7.
- When building from source, make sure that ld is /usr/ccs/bin/ld.
Linux
- Threaded builds (using pthreads) of e.g. the data management client bundle will very likely show intermittent hangs in some of the tools. This is caused by a bug in certain versions of the pthreads library. See this bug report and the LinuxThreads FAQ.
HP-UX