**When The Old Way Fails** + +Here is a situation which showed up while trying to build 6.8.2 when +we were on 7.2.1 and 7.3.0. The build using current tools and GIT worked fine +except that globus.4.0.3 as of that time was a corrupted tar ball. To build I needed to construct a working set of code and then do a workspace build in NMI. +I needed newer tools to get the workspace build option. This is what ended up working: + +*:Construct the sources you need to build in a workspace on the current NMI build host. +*:Place the latest NMI tools into the workspace from the master(nmi_tools) +*:Massage the NMI glue(nmi_glue) by taking nmi_glue/build/platform_post which matches the current NMI tools and placing this in the old nmi_glue. +*:CD into the nmi_tools folder +*:./condor_nmi_submit --build --desc="Requested 6.8.2 build" --workspace=../ --platforms=x86_rhas_3,x86_64_rhas_3