[OpenAFS-devel] openafs-snap-2001-09-10 on RedHat 7.1.94

Derek Atkins warlord@MIT.EDU
11 Sep 2001 13:52:58 -0400


Alf Wachsmann <alfw@SLAC.Stanford.EDU> writes:

> here are two changes I had to make to get openafs-snap-2001-09-10
> running on RedHat 7.1.94 Linux (aka Roswell). It uses kernel
> 2.4.7-2smp.
> 
> The first change is (of course) in osi_vfs.h. See attached diff.

This particular change to osi_vfs.h is NOT necessary.  Did you try
without it?

> The second change is that the libafs won't load into the kernel
> because "bcopy" is an unresolvable symbole. I had to create libafs
> with "ld -r -o libafs-2.4.7-2.mp.o ....... -L/usr/lib -lc".

Um, this is __absolutely__ WRONG.  You CANNOT link kernel modules
against libc.  If there are still bcopy's, you should figure out where
they are coming from and eradicate them.

> -- Alf.

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