Including IB utils in install images

[Ravi Pokala]

-----Original Message-----
From: Kyle Evans <kevans at freebsd.org>
Date: 2021-02-11, Thursday at 10:47
To: Glen Barber <gjb at freebsd.org>
Cc: Ravi Pokala <rpokala at freebsd.org>, "freebsd-hackers at freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers at freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: Including IB utils in install images

    On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 12:29 PM Glen Barber <gjb at freebsd.org> wrote:
    >
    > On Wed, Feb 03, 2021 at 10:06:20AM -0800, Ravi Pokala wrote:
    > > Hi folks,
    > >
    > > I'm using release/release.sh to create install images. We recently determined that we need to start including the InfiniBand utilities (contrib/ofed/infiniband-diags / usr.bin/ofed/infiniband-diags). I updated my release.conf to add 'WITH_OFED_EXTRA=1' to MAKE_FLAGS, and I confirmed that the utilities are being built. However, they are not subsequently copied to the distdir, or included in the resulting image. Well, technically, `ibstat' is, but per usr.bin/ofed/infiniband-diags/Makefile, it is not contingent on WITH_OFED_EXTRA / MK_OFED_EXTRA.
    > >
    > > Bug, or operator error?
    > >
    >
    > You could set a local SRC_CONF (see release/release.conf.sample), but
    > I *think* you also need to set WITH_OFED=1.  According to src.conf(5),
    > it seems WITH_OFED_EXTRA is ignored unless WITH_OFED is explicitly set.
    >

    Ravi followed up privately here; the problem he was seeing is because
    MAKE_FLAGS is only included in release.sh for building stuff.
    WORLD_FLAGS gets closer to what he wants, but a local src.conf is
    better as far as "touching build options" goes.

    The caveat was that then they'd have to pair their release.conf with a
    src.conf; I pointed out that release.conf is literally sourced in and
    that's heavily baked in enough to release.sh that it cannot change. A
    good solution for this kind of thing should be something along the
    lines of:

    srcconf=/path/whatever/maybe/tmpfile
    cat <<EOF > $srcconf
    WITH_OFED_EXTRA="YES"
    EOF
    ...
    SRC_CONF=$srcconf

I had hoped that adding "WITH_OFED_EXTRA=1" to WORLD_FLAGS in release.conf would do the trick, to avoid a separate src.conf to keep track of and clean up after. That built the tools, and put them in the world, but they were still omitted from the release directory. So, I gave in and created a src.conf with "WITH_OFED_EXTRA=1", and that indeed did the trick.

Thanks Kyle!

-Ravi (rpokala@)

    Thanks,

    Kyle Evans