[BProc] Re: BProc and MPICH

[Andrew S. <ag...@gm...>]

You can get the tar ball from the source rpm with the following command:

rpm -ivh <source rpm>

Then look in /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES (or /usr/src/packages/SOURCES on SuSE)

Note that in general, source rpms will patch the original tarball.
To get a patched source from the source rpm you would follow 'rpm -i' with:

cd /usr/src/redhat
rpmbuild -bp SPECS/<package name>.spec

The bp options stand for build preparation stage.  You will find the
patched source in:

/usr/src/redhat/BUILD

You should also look in the spec file to see how the package is being built=
.

Finally, you should be able to use any compiler you want to with the
rpmbuild process and a proper spec file.  I highly recommend learning
more about rpms if you manage any number of systems.

Andrew

On 6/13/05, Rene Salmon <rs...@tu...> wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> Is there just a patched mpich tar ball available for download?
> I am not very familiar with building RPMS from source.
>=20
> We installed the MPICH binary RPMS but they are not doing exactly what=20
> we want.  For example we would like to compile MPICH with the intel=20
> compilers and also add the intel fortran to mpif77.
>=20
> Thanks
> Rene


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Andrew Shewmaker