[OpenAFS-devel] PERLUAFS?

Benjamin Kaduk kaduk@mit.edu
Tue, 16 Aug 2022 18:30:55 -0700


On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 12:02:53AM +0000, Ben Huntsman wrote:
> Hi there-
>    I pushed my changes to get OpenAFS building on AIX, but some of the changes are failing the BuildBot verification:
> 
> PERLUAFS/ukernel_swig_perl.c: In function ‘swig_uafs_ParseArgs’:
> PERLUAFS/ukernel_swig_perl.c:1585:9: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘afs_com_err’ [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
>  1585 |         afs_com_err("AFS::ukernel", code, "parsing line: '%s'", line);
>       |         ^~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> But what is PERLUAFS and where is that even coming from?  I'm not sure how to resolve.

It's a scheme to use SWIG to produce perl bindings for the userspace AFS
client [library].  You almost certainly don't need it, and can pass
--without-swig to configure to skip trying to do anything with it.

-Ben