[OpenAFS] Re: OpenAFS + Kerb5

[Horst Birthelmer]

On Feb 16, 2006, at 4:25 PM, Jim Rees wrote:
>   thus you won't gain anything by compiling the userland parts with
>   gcc. You still need the 'native' compilers.
>
> I could imagine some cases where this would be useful.  For  
> example, you
> might be using the pre-compiled package for your platform, but want to
> recompile some userland tool so you can make a local modification  
> to it.

I never thought of that, since for me building OpenAFS was always a  
sort of 'all or nothing' game ;-)
Even though I wouldn't encourage people to distribute different,  
modified tools also situated inside and built from the OpenAFS tree.

But ... you're right.

Horst