[OpenAFS-devel] AFS Perl on 64-bit ...

[Norbert Gruener]

I have made some tests with the upcoming new AFSperl version 2.6.2 to
run it on 64-bit machines.  Additionally I have got some valuable
hints from Roman Mainer, University Paderborn, Germany.

With a "non-threaded" Perl version the AFSperl API version 2.6.2 is
working out of the box.  *** No *** modifications or patches are necessar=
y.

But unfortunately most Linux distributions come with a "threaded" Perl
version.

For the "threaded" Perl version I had to link the AFSperl API against
the "threaded" OpenAFS libraries.  But the libraries "libafsrpc" and
"libafsauthent" were not PIC which were necessary for the API on Linux
64-bit machines.  Therefore I have compiled a PIC version of the two
libraries and have them installed additionally.  Then I linked the
AFSperl against these new libraries.  This was successful and all test
drivers were working.  Then I have made extensive tests with the test
scripts without any problems.


So I see two solutions to this "threaded PIC" problem

  1) replace the "threaded" Perl version by a "non-threaded" Perl
     version, compiled and installed by yourself

  2) build and install two more OpenAFS libraries into your OpenAFS
     installation, link against these new libraries


I would like to get comments, opinions, objection, or other
suggestions from the OpenAFS developers.

Thank you in advance.

Cheers,

Norbert
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