[OpenAFS] Re: 1.4.2 client on RHEL5 beta 2

Jack Neely jjneely@pams.ncsu.edu
Mon, 12 Feb 2007 13:33:40 -0500


On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 11:43:51AM -0500, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tuesday, January 23, 2007 02:14:55 PM -0500 Derrick J Brashear 
> <shadow@dementia.org> wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Rainer Laatsch wrote:
> >
> >>I circumvented the MODPOST issue by patching
> >>/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-1.2747.el5-i686/scripts/mod/modpost.c
> >>around line 1103 ; replacing 'fatal' by 'warn'
> >
> >We can't reasonably do that. The problem is the loose binding isn't loose
> >enough for this check.
> 
> No, but with the new AC_TRY_KBUILD test, we should be able to reliably 
> determine at build time whether tasklist_lock is exported -- or at least, 
> whether a weak reference will cause the build to fail.

Jeff, is there a patch I can try the AC_TRY_KBUILD test with the
1.4.3 RCs?  Pointer into CVS?  I really need to work on some RHEL5-ish
stuff for work.  :-)

Thanks!
Jack

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