[OpenAFS-devel] Re: OpenAFS-devel digest, Vol 1 #25 - 13 msgs

Derrick J Brashear shadow@dementia.org
Thu, 7 Dec 2000 17:53:31 -0500 (EST)


On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, R. Lindsay Todd wrote:

> I've tried building on RedHat 7 with the source RPM.  The build mostly works,
> but not completely.  The compiler segfaults while compiling kdump.c.  Since
> make fails, rpm terminates.


Read the build notes. There's a bug in the gcc provided; kgcc will compile
it.

> Add "|| true" after the "make", and it turns out that enough is compiled to
> build the binary rpm's.
> 
> Those rpm's work fine.  The only problem is that the /etc/rc.d/init.d/afs
> start-up file is looking for kernel modules based on "uname -r", e.g.,
> 2.2.16-22smp, not just 2.2.16.  If you add appropriate symlinks, it works.
> Or alternatively, change the afs startup script, like in the latest IBM AFS
> release.

I'll investigate this. Thanks

-D