[OpenAFS-devel] Cannot configure openafs-1.2.11 with gcc on sun4x_56

[Martin MOKREJŠ]

On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:

So can I ask someone to make also binaries for 2.6 available? How am I
supposed to upgrade from old version? I cannot upgrade OS now, sorry.

> > The problem is that generated uses solaris cc for which we have no
> > licence and it is actually missing!
>
> This is actually not entirely a bug.
>
> On most platforms, including Solaris, the OpenAFS kernel module must be
> built using the same compiler used to build the kernel itself.  On Solaris,
> that means using Sun's compiler.  If you don't have Sun's compiler, you
> can't build OpenAFS -- it wouldn't work even if you could use gcc.
>
> It is arguably a bug that even user-mode components are not built using the
> compiler found by configure.  I would not expect to ever see this fixed in
> 1.2.x, but a bug report against 1.3.x would be appropriate, if it has not
> already been fixed there.  Bug reports, of course, should be sent to
> openafs-bugs@openafs.org so they get into RT and thus don't get forgotten.

Do I have to do it or will you rather formulate the bug yourself? :)

Thanks
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