Platform Notes for Globus Toolkit 3.9.4

Apple MacOS X
Debian
Fedora Core
HP/UX
IBM AIX
Red Hat
Sun Solaris
SuSE Linux

Apple MacOS X

Use gcc32dbg or gcc32 as flavor

Debian

Some kernel/libc combinations trigger a threading problem. See bug #2194. The workaround is to set LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 in your environment.

Fedora Core

Fedora Core 2 ships with a broken ant. Install your own ant from http://ant.apache.org and either remove the ant RPM or edit /etc/ant.conf, setting ANT_HOME to your own ant installation.

HP/UX

GPT's MD5.xs needs to be patched at line 52 with

./gpt-3.2autotools2004/support/Digest-MD5-2.20/MD5.xs:
+ #define na PL_na
+ #define dowarn PL_dowarn

Specify --with-flavor=vendorcc32 on the configure line. GNU tar and GNU make are required on the PATH.

Tested on a PA-RISC box with HPUX 11.11 with IPv6 patches.

HP Ansi-C compiler, version B.11.11.12
Java 1.4.2_06
Apache Ant 1.6.2

IBM AIX

Supported flavors are vendorcc32dbg/vendorcc32 and vendorcc64dbg/vendorcc64 using the Visual Age compilers (xlc). No gcc flavors are supported.

It seems like some GPT patch-n-build packages are not able to pick up the complete 64 bit environment. If that happens, try setting OBJECT_MODE=64 in your environment. This has to be done after GPT is built.

GNU tar is required before IBM tar in the PATH.

The toolkit has been tested on AIX 5.2 with:

Visual Age C/C++ 6.0
32 bit version of IBM Java 1.4
Apache Ant 1.5.4

Red Hat

No issues.

Sun Solaris

Supported flavors are gcc32, gcc64, vendorcc32 and vendorcc64. The dbg flavors should work as well. For gcc64, a gcc built to target 64 bit object files is required.

GPT has problems with the Sun provided perl and tar: http://www.gridpackagingtools.org/book/latest-stable/ch01s07.html

The toolkit has been tested on Solaris 9 with:

Sun Workshop 6 update 2 C 5.3
gcc 3.4.3
Sun Java 1.4.2_02
Apache Ant 1.5.4

SuSE Linux

No issues.