[OpenAFS-devel] Re: JUAFS Makefile missing key defines?

Derrick Brashear shadow@gmail.com
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:33:59 -0500


On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Andrew Deason <adeason@sinenomine.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:57:23 +0000
> Simon Wilkinson <sxw@inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> I suspect what we should do here is either drop ukernel from the IRIX
>> build entirely, or write a configure test for label support that we
>> can use in all of these situations when we're building in user mode.
>
> How prevalent is a lack of support for structure labels? If we are sure
> this limitation is only on a few specific platforms, this needn't be a
> configure test (instead just somewhere appropriately #define
> AFS_LABEL_ENV or something). Though a configure test is more correct,
> I'd hate to slow the build for something that exists almost everywhere.

Windows and Irix when not c99 are the only platforms I know of at this
point. We could convert irix to c99 for non-kernel easily. for kernel,
well, it's harder to test the result