[OpenAFS-devel] pinstall on AIX 5.1

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Matt Bacchi wrote:

> With Hartmut's patches newly committed to the cvs head, I figured I
> would try to compile on AIX 5.1.  It's working, I have a couple patches
> that I'll send along soon, but pinstall is one area where I need some
> advice.
>
> /bin/strip on AIX 5, well, on any 64 bit AIX, requires an argument -X to
> identify the type of XCOFF object file to examine.  Otherwise it
> defaults to 32 bit.  So, in particular in the src/export directory,
> cfgexport64 is obviously compiled using 64 bit compiler mode(-q64).
>
> My question is basically, how should I handle this?  Should I put
> something in src/pinstall/install.c to test for AFS_64BIT_ENV or
> AFS_64BIT_CLIENT, or even AFS_AIX51_ENV?
>
> Or, should I avoid pinstall, and rather make the change to the Makefile
> in src/export to only do -X 64 on those files that were explicitly
> compiled with -q64?

we should probably think about killing pinstall and using the system
install.