[OpenAFS-devel] Building openafs for old glibc 2.0.x?

[Neulinger, Nathan R.]

Aside from the obvious "why are you running an old glibc" - would there be
any reason not to include full support for building on old glibc w/ the
correct sysname in the openafs src? Or do the gatekeepers intend to have afs
stop supporting old platforms?

I personally hope not - as transarc really inconvenienced us by dropping
support for HP-UX 10.20 when they went to 3.5 and 3.6. 

As for the rpm - I despise those things with a passion. I should be able to
build from cvs without any trouble if it works at all.

-- Nathan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Derek Atkins [mailto:warlord@MIT.EDU]
> Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 12:26 PM
> To: Neulinger, Nathan R.
> Cc: 'openafs-devel@openafs.org'
> Subject: Re: [OpenAFS-devel] Building openafs for old glibc 2.0.x?
> 
> 
> Ok, provided you're running a 2.2 kernel, then I suppose that
> OpenAFS will work.  Feel free to try building from my SRPM,
> it should work.  Note that you'll have a 'bad' sysname (since
> RH 5.2 should use i386_linux3, not i386_linux22 that you'll get
> from the RPM).
> 
> -derek
> 
> PS: I think static linking would be a Bad Idea (TM).  Indeed, I'd like
> to see the AFS libraries changed into shared libraries.  The apps are
> large enough as they are.
> 
> "Neulinger, Nathan R." <nneul@umr.edu> writes:
> 
> > They are very stable _servers_ currently - a couple oracle 
> servers in
> > particular. They are running a current kernel, but the O/S 
> install is old.
> > 
> > We won't upgrade any 5.2 _user_ stations, they'll be 
> required to move to 6.2
> > first. 
> > 
> > I doubt we'll upgrade afs client on them in any case, as 
> they seem to be
> > running stable without any problems. 
> > 
> > -- Nathan
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Derek Atkins [mailto:warlord@MIT.EDU]
> > > Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 11:20 AM
> > > To: Neulinger, Nathan R.
> > > Cc: 'openafs-devel@openafs.org'
> > > Subject: Re: [OpenAFS-devel] Building openafs for old glibc 2.0.x?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I'm fairly sure that OpenAFS will still build on RH 5.2, except i
> > > don't know if there is support in there for Linux 2.0.  
> Feel free to
> > > try using my 6.2 SPEC-file with OpenAFS 1.0.1.
> > > 
> > > Otherwise, I'd suggest you convince your 5.2 users to upgrade to
> > > software which is less than two-years out-of-date.
> > > 
> > > -derek
> > > 
> > > "Neulinger, Nathan R." <nneul@umr.edu> writes:
> > > 
> > > > Transarc discontinued support for Redhat 5.2 and the 
> old glibc based
> > > > distributions. Unfortunately, we've still got a few 
> > > machines running that.
> > > > Do you know if there was any technical reason that the old 
> > > glibc had to be
> > > > abandoned or was it simply a case of 'building for the 
> > > current stuff'.
> > > > 
> > > > Alternatively, is it possible to build the linux afs tools 
> > > and afsd staticly
> > > > linked?
> > > > 
> > > > -- Nathan
> > > > 
> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------
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> > >        Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
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> 
> -- 
>        Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
>        Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
>        URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/      PP-ASEL      N1NWH
>        warlord@MIT.EDU                        PGP key available
>