Installation issue: rdma-core

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Assessment

Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
72/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
c, cmake, linux
Domain
build-system

Research direction

Start by reproducing the rdma-core build with the reported Spack spec and inspect the package recipe's declared dependencies. Trace the failure at rdma-ndd/rdma-ndd.c:53, then verify that the required libudev header is available during compilation and that the rdma-core build completes successfully.

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Description

build-error stale
Steps to reproduce the issue

I have got missing <libudev.h> header error while trying to compile rdma-core package. Same issue with older versions.

$ spack spec -I rdma-core@57.0~ipo+man_pages+pyverbs+static build_system=cmake build_type=Release generator=make platform=linux os=opensuse15 target=broadwell %c=gcc@12.2.0
 -   rdma-core@57.0~ipo+man_pages+pyverbs+static build_system=cmake build_type=Release generator=make platform=linux os=opensuse15 target=broadwell %c=gcc@12.2.0
[+]      ^cmake@3.31.8~doc+ncurses+ownlibs~qtgui build_system=generic build_type=Release platform=linux os=opensuse15 target=broadwell %c,cxx=gcc@12.2.0
[+]          ^curl@8.15.0~gssapi~ldap~libidn2~librtmp~libssh~libssh2+nghttp2 build_system=autotools libs:=shared,static tls:=openssl platform=linux os=opensuse15 target=broadwell %c,cxx=gcc@12.2.0
[+]              ^nghttp2@1.65.0 build_system=autotools platform=linux os=opensuse15 target=broadwell %c,cxx=gcc@12.2.0
[+]              ^openssl@3.4.1~docs+shared build_system=generic certs=mozilla platform=linux os=opensuse15 target=broadwell %c,cxx=gcc@12.2.0
[+]                  ^ca-certificates-mozilla@2025-05-20 build_system=generic platform=linux os=opensuse15 target=broadwell 
[+]              ^perl@5.42.0+cpanm+opcode+open+shared+threads build_system=generic platform=linux os=opensuse15 target=broadwell %c=gcc@12.2.0
[+]                  ^berkeley-db@18.1.40+cxx~docs+stl build_system=autotools patches:=26090f4,b231fcc platform=linux os=opensuse15 target=broadwell %c,cxx=gcc@12.2.0
[+]          ^ncurses@6.5-20250705~symlinks+termlib abi=none build_system=autotools patches:=7a351bc platform=linux os=opensuse15 target=broadwell %c,cxx=gcc@12.2.0
[+]          ^zlib-ng@2.2.4+compat+new_strategies+opt+pic+shared build_system=autotools platform=linux os=opensuse15 target=broadwell %c,cxx=gcc@12.2.0
[+]      ^compiler-wrapper@1.0 build_system=generic platform=linux os=opensuse15 target=broadwell 
[e]      ^gcc@12.2.0~binutils+bootstrap~graphite~mold~nvptx~piclibs~profiled~strip build_system=autotools build_type=RelWithDebInfo languages:='c,c++,fortran' platform=linux os=opensuse15 target=broadwell 
[+]      ^gcc-runtime@12.2.0 build_system=generic platform=linux os=opensuse15 target=broadwell 
[e]      ^glibc@2.31 build_system=autotools platform=linux os=opensuse15 target=broadwell 
[+]      ^gmake@4.4.1~guile build_system=generic platform=linux os=opensuse15 target=broadwell %c=gcc@12.2.0
[+]      ^libnl@3.3.0 build_system=autotools platform=linux os=opensuse15 target=broadwell %c=gcc@12.2.0
[+]          ^bison@3.8.2~color build_system=autotools platform=linux os=opensuse15 target=broadwell %c,cxx=gcc@12.2.0
[+]              ^diffutils@3.12 build_system=autotools platform=linux os=opensuse15 target=broadwell %c=gcc@12.2.0
[+]                  ^libiconv@1.18 build_system=autotools libs:=shared,static platform=linux os=opensuse15 target=broadwell %c=gcc@12.2.0
[+]          ^flex@2.6.3+lex~nls build_system=autotools platform=linux os=opensuse15 target=broadwell %c,cxx=gcc@12.2.0
[+]              ^findutils@4.10.0 build_system=autotools patches:=440b954 platform=linux os=opensuse15 target=broadwell %c=gcc@12.2.0
[+]          ^m4@1.4.20+sigsegv build_system=autotools platform=linux os=opensuse15 target=broadwell %c,cxx=gcc@12.2.0
[+]              ^libsigsegv@2.14 build_system=autotools platform=linux os=opensuse15 target=broadwell %c=gcc@12.2.0
[+]      ^pkgconf@2.5.1 build_system=autotools platform=linux os=opensuse15 target=broadwell %c=gcc@12.2.0
[+]      ^py-docutils@0.21.2 build_system=python_pip platform=linux os=opensuse15 target=broadwell 
[+]          ^py-flit-core@3.12.0 build_system=python_pip platform=linux os=opensuse15 target=broadwell 
[+]          ^py-pip@25.1.1 build_system=generic platform=linux os=opensuse15 target=broadwell 
[+]          ^py-wheel@0.45.1 build_system=generic platform=linux os=opensuse15 target=broadwell 
[+]          ^python@3.13.5+bz2+ctypes+dbm~debug+libxml2+lzma~optimizations+pic+pyexpat+pythoncmd+readline+shared+sqlite3+ssl~tkinter+uuid+zlib build_system=generic platform=linux os=opensuse15 target=broadwell %c,cxx=gcc@12.2.0
[+]              ^bzip2@1.0.8~debug~pic+shared build_system=generic platform=linux os=opensuse15 target=broadwell %c=gcc@12.2.0
[+]              ^expat@2.7.1+libbsd build_system=autotools platform=linux os=opensuse15 target=broadwell %c,cxx=gcc@12.2.0
[+]                  ^libbsd@0.12.2 build_system=autotools platform=linux os=opensuse15 target=broadwell %c=gcc@12.2.0
[+]                      ^libmd@1.1.0 build_system=autotools platform=linux os=opensuse15 target=broadwell %c=gcc@12.2.0
[+]              ^gdbm@1.25 build_system=autotools platform=linux os=opensuse15 target=broadwell %c=gcc@12.2.0
[+]              ^gettext@0.23.1+bzip2+curses+git~libunistring+libxml2+pic+shared+tar+xz build_system=autotools platform=linux os=opensuse15 target=broadwell %c,cxx=gcc@12.2.0
[+]                  ^libxml2@2.13.5~http+pic~python+shared build_system=autotools platform=linux os=opensuse15 target=broadwell %c=gcc@12.2.0
[+]                  ^tar@1.35 build_system=autotools zip=pigz platform=linux os=opensuse15 target=broadwell %c=gcc@12.2.0
[+]                      ^pigz@2.8 build_system=makefile platform=linux os=opensuse15 target=broadwell %c=gcc@12.2.0
[+]                      ^zstd@1.5.7+programs build_system=makefile compression:=none libs:=shared,static platform=linux os=opensuse15 target=broadwell %c,cxx=gcc@12.2.0
[+]              ^libffi@3.4.8 build_system=autotools platform=linux os=opensuse15 target=broadwell %c,cxx=gcc@12.2.0
[+]              ^readline@8.3 build_system=autotools patches:=21f0a03 platform=linux os=opensuse15 target=broadwell %c=gcc@12.2.0
[+]              ^sqlite@3.50.4+column_metadata+fts+rtree build_system=autotools platform=linux os=opensuse15 target=broadwell %c=gcc@12.2.0
[+]              ^util-linux-uuid@2.41 build_system=autotools platform=linux os=opensuse15 target=broadwell %c=gcc@12.2.0
[+]              ^xz@5.6.3~pic build_system=autotools libs:=shared,static platform=linux os=opensuse15 target=broadwell %c=gcc@12.2.0
[+]          ^python-venv@1.0 build_system=generic platform=linux os=opensuse15 target=broadwell
Error message
     710    cd /tmp/vsg/spack-stage/spack-stage-rdma-core-50.0-deb5zrw6rz4iyczsrlpppj6ue4v5zyyq/spack-build-deb5zrw/libibumad/tests && /mnt/beegfs/sc
            ratch/vsg/tools/spack/opt/spack/linux-broadwell/cmake-3.31.8-5mitfm6ser7yahtosvl5xxget46rfoti/bin/cmake -E cmake_link_script CMakeFiles/u
            mad_compile_test.dir/link.txt --verbose=1
  >> 711    /tmp/vsg/spack-stage/spack-stage-rdma-core-50.0-deb5zrw6rz4iyczsrlpppj6ue4v5zyyq/spack-src/rdma-ndd/rdma-ndd.c:53:10: fatal error: libude
            v.h: No such file or directory
     712       53 | #include <libudev.h>
     713          |          ^~~~~~~~~~~
     714    compilation terminated.
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