[OpenAFS-devel] what's "enable-redhat-buildsys" all about?

[Derek Atkins]

Matthew Miller <mattdm@mattdm.org> writes:

> On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 04:23:49PM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> It's designed to let you build against multiple kernels at once, and
>> pass in the various types of kernel architectures and build-types on
>> the compile line versus at configure time.
>> You should never use it from a command line.
>
> Why? A spec file is mostly just shell commands -- should be
> indistinguishable from the command line from the program-being-run's point
> of view.

Well, yes and no.  A Spec file is a complete process to build an RPM
package.  The mental model of what the OpenAFS SPEC is doing is NOT
the same mental model as a normal user building AFS from source.
The  --enable-redhat-buildsys is supposed to make the OpenAFS code
work with the SPEC's mental model as opposed to the user's mental
model.

>> This failure has nothing to do with the redhat buildsys.
>
> Oh? Works perfectly fine without that flag -- add it, and failure. So it
> clearly has _something_ to do with it.

Then this is a bug in the configure script.  Note that the SPEC file
does not support Linux 2.6.

-derek
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