[OpenAFS] OpenAFS for x86 Solaris 8

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Sun, 30 Jun 2002, Alan Meadows wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> I apologize if I'm not posting to the correct group.  I have been 
> attempting to install OpenAFS 1.2.5 on the x86 Solaris 8 platform to deploy 
> some large scale data storage with OpenAFS.  My preferred operating system 
> is GNU/Debian Linux, but I -really- want to avoid the CopyOnWrite bug.  For 
> the last few days I have been struggling with compiling OpenAFS for the 
> Intel Solaris 8 platform.  I am not a complete newbie when it comes to 
> compiling and installing packages, but I am very inexperienced with Solaris 
> and cannot seem to get the package to install using the gcc compiler.  I 

gcc isn't supported for building kernel modules yet. It's Sun cc or
nothing.

> attempts.  It really looks as though I should be using "sunx86_58" as my 
> sysname, but this does not exist?

It will in the next version.