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I'm late in catching up with Grid Engine mailing list traffic but this one from Orion Poplawski caught my eye:

F-10 will ship with 6.2-3. I'll be pushing a 6.3-4 (or later) 0-day update as well: * Tue Nov 11 2008 - Orion Poplawski
- 6.2-4
- Add note to README about localhost line in /etc/hosts
- Cleanup setting.sh some, no more MAN stuff
- Add conditional build support for EL
- Use system db_* utils in bdb_checkpoint script


I've got the src.rpm here:

http://www.cora.nwra.com/~orion/fedora/gridengine-6.2-4.fc11.src.rpm

This should build on EL-5, F-9, and F-8 with sun java 1.6.0 installed.
These rpms are geared for minimal NFS type installs. install_* scripts should work, though install_execd should not be needed for standard "default" installs. Bugs to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/.

Running Grid Engine on an OS with a bleeding-edge version of glibc? The following (taken directly from here) may help:

Responding to a question about which versions of Linux would support a particular version of Grid Engine, Ben had this to say in his reply:

"...The only thing you need to change for this to work properly is ${SGE_ROOT}/util/arch, since only glibc up to 2.5 is defined as "supported" in that script, and Fedora 8 ships with glibc 2.7. Change the glibc check (around line 248) from 3|4|5) to 3|4|5|6|7)".

This is good advice in general for people running operating systems that may ship with versions of glibc that are "newer" than what the SGE developers are using in their lab and build facilities.