[OpenAFS] How to set CFLAGS for OpenAFS?

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, Evan Knop wrote:

> I'm trying to build OpenAFS with a certain set of CFLAGS.  Is there a string 
> I can pass to configure to add something to the CFLAGS for each directory (in 
> this case, its -fPIC so the .a files can be linked into a .so library for PAM 
> on x86_64/amd64).

For starters, I'll suggest you work with 1.3.70.
After you do that, override CCOBJ (which should be cc) with cc -fPIC, and 
you'll get what you want.

> I've found that the openafs-1.2.11-rhel3.0.1.src.rpm is missing a few things 
> for x86_64, which will cause a rpmbuild -ba to go quite wrong. Would there be 
> an interest in my patches when I've got everything working?

We're trying pretty hard to not care about 1.2 anymore.

> Currently, I've had to disable building with PAM because of -fPIC problem, 
> but I have managed to build the rest of the rpms (minus the krb5support) 
> successfully.  The two major changes I've needed were to translate the "arch 
> = x86_64" to a sysbase of "amd64", and to set LINUX_GCC_KOPTS="-mno-red-zone" 
> before all the ./configure steps.