[OpenAFS-devel] OpenAFS build on CentOS 5.3

Steven Jenkins steven.jenkins@gmail.com
Mon, 6 Apr 2009 17:13:56 -0400


On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 5:04 PM,  <kaushik1@illinois.edu> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am a newbie to OpenAFS and I am trying to build the 1.4.5 source code
> on CentOS.
>
> I received an error "checking your AFS sysname... configure: error:
> Couldn't guess your Linux version. Please use the --with-afs-sysname
> option to configure an AFS sysname.". =A0I tried "i386_linux26" as the
> sysname based on an email I saw on the mailing list and configure went
> through fine. =A0However, make is now failing with the error message
> "gtxcurseswin.h:18:42: error: ncurses.h: No such file or directory In
> file included from input.c:24:". =A0Any thoughts on how I can resolve
> this?

You are probably missing the ncurses & ncurses-devel packages: e.g.,
yum install ncurses ncurses-devel

>
> BTW, is OpenAFS even supported on CentOS?
>

Yes, it is, as CentOS is considered equivalent to Red Hat.

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Steven Jenkins
End Point Corporation
http://www.endpoint.com/