[OpenAFS-devel] compiling OpenAFS under Linux 2.4.2

Derrick J Brashear shadow@dementia.org
Fri, 16 Mar 2001 20:19:29 -0500


--On Thursday, March 15, 2001 05:50:52 PM -0500 Olga Kornievskaia 
<aglo@engin.umich.edu> wrote:

>
> Has anybody been able to compile OpenAFS (1.0.3) under Linux 2.4.2?
> I'm having problems doing so. Depending on the compiler (I tried: gcc,
> kgcc, and cc), the build stops because of parse errors (in header files).
> gcc or cc fails in kdump.c. kgcc fails in libuafs/UAFS directory with
> parse errors. I would greatly appreciate if somebody can tell me if the
> current release of OpenAFS works under the linux kernel version 2.4.2. And
> if somebody faced similar compilation problems I would like to know if
> there is a solution.

You don't need kdump; You actually don't need the userland cache manager 
either, unless you're playing the afsweb, but if you have that error and 
can share it, please do (the libuafs one, not the kdump one)

-D