[slurm-users] RHEL8 support - Missing Symbols in SelectType libraries

[Brian Andrus]

That's pretty much how I did it too.

But...

When you try to run slurmd, it chokes on the missing symbols issue.
Are you able to start slurmd?

Brian

On 11/1/2019 10:37 AM, Michael Jennings wrote:
> On Tuesday, 29 October 2019, at 15:11:38 (+0000),
> Christopher Benjamin Coffey wrote:
>
>> Brian, I've actually just started attempting to build slurm 19 on
>> centos 8 yesterday. As you say, there are packages missing now from
>> repos like:
> They're not missing; they're just harder to get at now, for some
> reason.
>
> I have successfully built SLURM 19.05.3 on CentOS 8.  I'm still
> verifying that everything works correctly, but here's my spec file
> diff so far (safe to apply upstream, if desired...won't break other
> distros):
>
> --- slurm.spec.orig     2019-10-31 13:55:28.077658869 -0600
> +++ slurm.spec  2019-11-01 10:57:28.921423048 -0600
> @@ -62,14 +62,14 @@
>   %{?systemd_requires}
>   BuildRequires: systemd
>   BuildRequires: munge-devel munge-libs
> -BuildRequires: python
> +BuildRequires: python%{?el8:2}
>   BuildRequires: readline-devel
>   Obsoletes: slurm-lua slurm-munge slurm-plugins
>   
>   # fake systemd support when building rpms on other platforms
>   %{!?_unitdir: %global _unitdir /lib/systemd/systemd}
>   
> -%define use_mysql_devel %(perl -e '`rpm -q mariadb-devel`; print $?;')
> +%{expand:%%global use_mysql_devel %(perl -e '`rpm -q mariadb-devel`; print $?;')}
>   
>   %if %{with mysql}
>   %if %{use_mysql_devel}
> @@ -124,12 +124,12 @@
>   
>   %if %{with pmix}
>   BuildRequires: pmix
> -%global pmix %(rpm -q pmix --qf "%{VERSION}")
> +%{expand:%%global pmix %(rpm -q pmix --qf "%{VERSION}")}
>   %endif
>   
>   %if %{with ucx}
>   BuildRequires: ucx-devel
> -%global ucx_version %(rpm -q ucx-devel --qf "%{VERSION}")
> +%{expand:%%global ucx_version %(rpm -q ucx-devel --qf "%{VERSION}")}
>   %endif
>   
>   #  Allow override of sysconfdir via _slurm_sysconfdir.
> @@ -158,7 +158,7 @@
>   #
>   # Should unpackaged files in a build root terminate a build?
>   # Uncomment if needed again.
> -#%define _unpackaged_files_terminate_build      0
> +#define _unpackaged_files_terminate_build      0
>   
>   # Slurm may intentionally include empty manifest files, which will
>   # cause errors with rpm 4.13 and on. Turn that check off.
> @@ -265,7 +265,7 @@
>   Obsoletes: slurm-sjobexit slurm-sjstat slurm-seff
>   %description contribs
>   seff is a mail program used directly by the Slurm daemons. On completion of a
> -job, wait for it's accounting information to be available and include that
> +job, wait for its accounting information to be available and include that
>   information in the email body.
>   sjobexit is a slurm job exit code management tool. It enables users to alter
>   job exit code information for completed jobs
> @@ -305,6 +305,7 @@
>   %prep
>   # when the rel number is one, the tarball filename does not include it
>   %setup -n %{slurm_source_dir}
> +%{__sed} -i -e 's!env python$!env python2!' $(%{__grep} -Frl 'env python' .)
>   
>   %build
>   %configure \
>
> I build with Mezzanine, but the equivalent would roughly be this:
>
>    rpmbuild -ts slurm-19.05.3-2.tar.bz2
>    cat the_above_diff.patch | (cd ~/rpmbuild/SPECS ; patch -p0)
>    rpmbuild --with x11 --with lua --with pmix ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/slurm.spec
>
> In order for that to work, though, you need to configure your yum/dnf
> setup, like so:
>
>    dnf -y install dnf-utils
>    dnf config-manager --set-enabled cr
>    dnf config-manager --set-enabled PowerTools
>    dnf -y install munge-devel lua-devel json-c-devel lz4-devel
>
> Hope that helps!
> Michael
>