[OpenAFS] Supported Platforms

[Henry B. Hotz]

>To: "Henry B. Hotz" <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>
>Cc: openafs-info@openafs.org
>Subject: Re: [OpenAFS] Supported Platforms
>From: Love <lha@stacken.kth.se>
>Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 10:35:54 +0100
>
>"Henry B. Hotz" <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov> writes:
>
>>  What platforms are supported?
>>
>>  I just naively tried to compile on a NetBSD/macppc machine and
>>  configure didn't know what afs-sysid to use.  config.guess correctly
>  > identifies the machine as powerpc-apple-netbsdelf1.6L.  Should I
                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
s/macppc/powerpc/

I think the logic is that the difference between an Apple and an IBM 
workstation running NetBSD should be invisible.

>  > assume I have a porting job ahead of me (based on the OSX/Darwin
>>  version I suppose).
>
>Since head of openafs runs on both NetBSD/1.6 alpha and NetBSD1/1.6 i386 it
>shouldn't be too hard.
>
>In fact, if I guess the config.guess name right (macppc-*-netbsd* ?)
>
>http://people.su.se/~lha/patches/openafs/macppc
>
>should get you quite far. Usully there is some #ifdef lossage involved in
>new platforms, should be easy enough for you to fix.
>
>Love
>
>PS i've added netbsd 1.6M/2.0 support when I was in the same file...

Thanks for the pointer though!
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