[OpenAFS] OpenAFS for x86 Solaris 8

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Sun, 30 Jun 2002, Alan Meadows wrote:

> >gcc isn't supported for building kernel modules yet. It's Sun cc or
> >nothing.
> 
> 
> Does this mean OpenAFS is not capable of working on x86 Solaris 8 systems? 

We got patches from someone who claimed to have tried them, so I'll have
to go with no. I could believe I was mistaken and it worked with gcc on
x86 (it is known to not work on sparc) but I doubt it.

> If building OpenAFS is not possible with gcc, I do not see a way to build 
> it at all because as far as I can tell it's not possible to get Sun's cc 
> compiler for x86 Solaris.  Their latest version of the compiler suite is 
> for the SPARC platform only.  It also doesn't look like they intend to 
> release a compiler suite for the x86 architecture anytime soon.

By implication you're saying "the current version isn't available so no
version ever was"?

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/Solaris2/x86/FAQ/ question 6.30 implies
otherwise. 

> > > 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.
> 
> If you cannot build Solaris kernel module's with gcc and x86 systems do not 
> have the ability to acquire Sun's cc compiler, how will this help?

I don't know anything about compiler availability from Sun, current or
otherwise, so I can't really comment meaningfully on that. I don't have a
Solaris x86 machine, but clearly it was/is useful to someone. We can
probably arrange at minimum for a binary build of the next version, and
when I have a minute I can inquire as to the what and how of building
this.