Globus Toolkit™ 2.x.x for HP Tru64 UNIX systems

The Globus Toolkit 2.x.x source bundles have been built and tested on  Alpha systems running Tru64 UNIX (V5.0A, V5.1, V5.1A and V5.1B). While the Globus Toolkit installation instructions apply to Tru64 UNIX, there are several additional requirements that must be met; these are documented below:

• Depending on which bundles are built, the Tru64 UNIX V5.0A and V5.1 linker may fail to create shared libraries due to multiply defined symbols. This linker problem was fixed in Patch Kit 3 (BL17) (free site registration) and does not affect V5.1A (and beyond). Known work-arounds include using the linker -noso and -so_archive flags to choose archive libraries over their shared counterparts, or moving the offending shared libraries to a temporary directory during the link phase.
  
• The $CC environment variable should be set to /usr/bin/cc. This will ensure that the Tru64 UNIX C compiler will be selected over any other installed compilers (for example., gcc).
  
• Use the 64-bit flavored builds on Tru64 UNIX (for example, vendorcc64); the 32-bit flavors will not work.
  
• To use GridFTP, you must configure a GridFTP access file at /etc/ftpaccess. A non-restrictive ftpaccess(5) file would contain:

             class all real *
             pasv-allow all 0.0.0.0/0
             port-allow all 0.0.0.0/0

             Additional details can be found at
             http://www.wu-ftpd.org/man/ftpaccess.html

• Starting with Globus release 2.2.4, the grid-proxy-init command fails on Tru64 releases prior to V5.1B with the message "ERROR: Couldn't create proxy certificate". This is due to OpenSSLs insistence on a random data source and the lack thereof on these systems. An easy work-around is to create a ".rnd" file in your home directory containing random data and set the $RANDFILE environment variable to point at it.

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