[OpenAFS-devel] not sure what to do about rlim --- also on other 64 bit machines?

[Jeffrey Hutzelman]

On Thursday, June 29, 2006 07:18:00 AM -0400 chas williams - CONTRACTOR 
<chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil> wrote:

> In message <20060629042745.GC5860@narn.hozed.org>,Troy Benjegerdes writes:
>> I managed to build OpenAFS 1.4.1 on 2.6.17 (kernel.org) on a PPC64
>> machine, using
>> "CFLAGS='-m64' ./configure
>> --with-linux-kernel-headers=/usr/src/linux-2.6.17"
>
> i am surprised that is sufficient.  2.6.17 seems to have changed the
> way KBUILD_BASENAME is handled and requires a new macro KBUILD_STR.
> i rewrote the linux kernel tests (see openafs bug 34561) to understand
> this.  however, it would probably be a good idea to make the tests a bit
> more kernel friendly under 2.6 by using the existing kernel build system.
> this would always test with the 'right' flags.

I agree, as do several others.  Find us a tuit.  Any shape will do; I'll 
round it off myself if necessary (hm, though that might require a round one 
to use as a template...).

-- Jeff