[OpenAFS-devel] problems compiling openafs modules on Debian linux

[Paul E Rybski]

On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Derrick J Brashear wrote:

> On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Paul E Rybski wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > 	Has anyone had any troubles compiling the openafs modules under
> > Debian linux?  I used to not have any problems with this until recently.
> > I did recently turn off local apic support for uniprocessors in my kernel,
> > but I don't know if that makes a difference or not.  Any thoughts?
> >
> > I'm running an up-to-date stable/testing and am trying to compile openafs
> > 1.3.50 with gcc-2.95.4 on kernels 2.4.22, 2.4.22-ac4, and 2.4.23.  The
> > first bit of weirdness is that the configure script doesn't find my
> > signal.h file.  When I hack the config.cache file to change that and try
> > recompiling, I get an error saying:
> >
> > In file included from /usr/include/linux/smp.h:17,
> >                  from /usr/include/linux/percpu_counter.h:9,
> >                  from /usr/include/linux/ext2_fs_sb.h:20,
> >                  from /usr/include/linux/ext2_fs.h:20,
> >                  from devname.c:91:
> > /usr/include/asm/smp.h:73: mach_apicdef.h: No such file or directory
>
> The patch here:
> http://www.openafs.org/cgi-bin/wdelta/vol-linux-dont-assume-ext2-20031208
>
> will not apply directly but if you make the same change it will go away.

Hi,
	I manually edited the file in openafs 1.2.10 as specified in the
above patch and got it to compile and run on my stock 2.4.23 kernel.

Thanks!

-Paul