[OpenAFS-devel] AIX 6.1 support - anyone working on it?

[Niklas Edmundsson]

On Tue, 19 Aug 2008, Niklas Edmundsson wrote:

> Is anyone working on openafs-support for AIX6? I've seen that there is 
> support for it in IBM AFS now, but I've seen nothing for openafs.
>
> I suspect that getting basic support for AIX6 is just a matter of fixing the 
> build system, however I have no clue on what's needed for WPAR (workload 
> partitions) support and other new acronyms that's crept into AIX6. I don't 
> need the fancy stuff though, so if anyone has anything that improves the 
> situation I'm interested :)

Noone seemed to be doing anything, so I dove right in.

I can now read from AFS, it was mostly build system issues with the 
spice of a stupid bug or two in the openafs sources.

I'll send along a patch when I have ironed out a few details, should I 
send it to bugs@, openafs-devel@ or both?

/Nikke
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