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

[Derek Atkins]

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 software which is less than two-years out-of-date.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
       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
       URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/      PP-ASEL      N1NWH
       warlord@MIT.EDU                        PGP key available