[OpenAFS] Perl AFS on EL6/x86_64 with 1.6

[Norbert Gruener]

Hi Stephen,

On Tue, Apr 03 2012, Stephen Quinney wrote:
> I believe there are some patches floating around which make it
> possible to build and run the perl AFS module on RHEL6 x86_64 with
> openafs version 1.6. Does anyone know anything about these? Or can
> anyone point me in the right direction as to what needs doing?

in September 2011, Simon Wilkinson wrote on this OpenAFS mailing list

> > Yes, perl-AFS doesn't really work on 64bit platforms. This is
> > because its library dependencies are all a bit of a mess - it mixes
> > PIC and non-PIC libraries, as well as mingling pthread and LWP code
> > in the same object. It just about gets away with this on 32 bit
> > platforms, but this doesn't work on 64bit, and no longer works with
> > OpenAFS 1.6.0.
> >
> > I've been doing some work on sorting all of this out. This requires
> > some OpenAFS library changes (so that we provide PIC versions of all
> > of the symbols perl-AFS needs), which will be in 1.6.1, as well as
> > patches to the perl-AFS code itself.

I had contacted him about those changes, but so far there are no
adapted libraries available.  At the moment I am doing the final tests
for a new release of AFSPerl v2.6.3.  But this will only work with
OpenAFS 1.4.X

After that release I will try to make the step towards OpenAFS 1.6.X
with support from Simon and maybe some other OpenAFS developers.


Cheers,

Norbert
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