I'm in charge of building the VDT for GriPhyN. Here is a problem I came across 
with the binary installation of Globus. 

===== Short Description =====
When you install a binary bundles, the .la files that describe the libraries 
for libtool have hard coded pathnames in them that are incorrect. 

For example, libssl_gcc32pthr.la has two bad lines in it:

dependency_libs=' -
L/home/gose/latest/g/dm/sdk/lib /home/gose/latest/g/dm/sdk/lib/libcrypto_gcc32pt
hr.la -ldl -lpthread'

libdir='/home/gose/latest/g/dm/sdk/lib'

Since these directories don't exist on my system, using libtool to link with 
Globus fail. 

===== Longer description =====
I'm in charge of creating the VDT distribution for GriPhyn. I was building 
GDMP, and I had a problem because I was linking against our locally built-from-
source Globus which used the gcc32dbgpthr flavor, but the VDT installs binaries 
bundles with the gcc32 or gcc32pthr flavor. Because GDMP uses dynamic linking, 
the binaries failed to execute. 

So I installed the binary Linux bundles that we install in the VDT. These are 
the binary bundles from the Globus web site. I used the "all" bundles, plus the 
pthreaded SDK bundles and the replica catalog bundles. 

Given that you distribute SDK bundles, one would hope that they would be usable 
for building software. Unfortunately, they are not. 

I just replicated this. I installed the "globus_data_management_bundle-sdk-
linux-i686-gcc32.tar.gz" bundle, and it installed a number of .la files in my 
lib directory. I looked at "libglobus_ftp_client_gcc32.la", and the 
dependency_libs line and the libdir line contain hard-coded references to Scott 
Gose's home directory. When I try to use libtool, I get warnings and errors 
like:

    libtool: link: warning: library 
`/scratch.local/roy/globus/lib/libssl_gcc32pthr.la' was moved.
    libtool: link: cannot find the library 
`/home/gose/latest/g/dm/sdk/lib/libcrypto_gcc32pthr.la'

That library is installed in my Globus lib directory. I don't have a /home/gose 
directory.

Yes, there are work-arounds for this problem. I can edit all of the .la files 
to contain correct references. I can build Globus from source bundles. However, 
these are time-consuming and really shouldn't have to be done. When I install a 
Globus SDK, it should be a working SDK. 

-alain