[OpenAFS] OpenAFS 1.6.20.1 on AIX 7.1

[Stephan Wiesand]

On Feb 6, 2017, at 18:34 , Ted Creedon wrote:

> why not use vm's for all non linux builds?

Because it will be just about as hard to find a system capable of =
hosting those VMs?

Most, if not all, Linux build slaves are VMs. So were the Windows ones.

Looks like it has largely been forgotten already that virtualizing =
anything not x86[_64] still isn't quite as trivial?

- Stephan

> ________________________________________
> From: openafs-info-admin@openafs.org <openafs-info-admin@openafs.org> =
on behalf of Pascal Salet <pascal.salet@wu.ac.at>
> Sent: Monday, February 6, 2017 5:07 AM
> To: openafs-info@openafs.org
> Subject: Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS 1.6.20.1 on AIX 7.1
>=20
>>> I would be very grateful for any advice on this matter.
>>=20
>> Pascal,
>>=20
>> To the best of my knowledge there has been no active development of
>> OpenAFS on any AIX release since January 2015.  At that time the AIX =
6
>> build machine was removed from the build farm because the =
organization
>> that provided it for many years could no longer afford to do so.
>>=20
>> It does not surprise me if over the last two years there has been
>> drift between OpenAFS and AIX; especially a new major release of AIX.
>>=20
>> To answer your question, I am unaware of anyone that has installed
>> OpenAFS on AIX 7.1.
>>=20
>> If you can provide more details on the failure, perhaps the community
>> can assist?
>>=20
>> If the ability to use OpenAFS on AIX 7.1 is important to your
>> institution, perhaps it would be willing to provide a build host for =
use
>> by the developer community.
>>=20
>> Jeffrey Altman
>=20
> Jeffrey,
>=20
> thank you very much for clarifying this.
>=20
> I will inquire if the university can provide a build-host with AIX7 on
> our former PowerPC-server. This may or may not be feasible, according =
to
> administrative policies or product licenses.
>=20
> The options used are
> ##
> ./configure -with-afs-sysname=3Drs_aix61 --enable-tivoli-tsm \\
> --enable-transarc-paths --disable-pam --includedir=3D/usr/include
> ##
>=20
> After copying the binaries manually to /usr/afs/ and /usr/vice/etc/
> according to
> https://wiki.openafs.org/archive/HowToBuildOpenAFSFromSource/
> and executing rc.afs, the server freezes and reboots.
>=20
> Pascal
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