[OpenAFS] rxkad error=19270410 on AIX 5.3, openafs 1.4.2

[Steve Roseman]

Marcus Watts wrote:
> I've built a cache manager with WORDS_BIGENDIAN defined.
> 
> Works fine.
> 
> There's some really screwey logic in src/config/afsconfig.h that
> is supposed to set WORDS_BIGENDIAN .  For aix 4.3, this starts
> simply enough:
> 	#define AUTOCONF_FOUND_BIGENDIAN 1
> 	#define ENDIANESS_IN_SYS_PARAM_H 1
> 	presumably __BIG_ENDIAN__ isn't set (who sets this?)
> Then there's a hairy ifdef towards the end that sets
> WORDS_BIGENDIAN depending on __BIG_ENDIAN__, __LITTLE_ENDIAN__,
> ENDIANESS_IN_SYS_PARAM_H, KERNEL, BYTE_ORDER, and AUTOCONF_FOUND_BIGENDIAN.
> For kernel code on aix, this results in not setting WORDS_BIGENDIAN, and
> thus building a bad cache manager.
> 
> The "simple" kludge is to just append the line "#define WORDS_BIGENDIAN 1"
> at the end of src/config/afsconfig.h after configuring afs, then at the top do
> 	( cd src/libafs; make clean )
> 		-- if you have old kernel objects in your build tree
> 	make only_libafs
> 		-- build just the cache manager
> You can then copy the cache manager pieces to your already existing system.

	That did it!  Thanks!

	I didn't test much yet, but the obvious things work, including 
accessing protected directories.

Steve

> Of course you can also build the whole thing.
> Just remember that if you type configure or config.status you'll
> have to patch afsconfig.h again.
> 
> The "right" fix is to do something about the ifdef in
> src/config/afsconfig.h.in which comes from acconfig.h or better
> yet by using AH_BOTTOM in acinclude.m4 .
> 
> 					-Marcus Watts
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