[OpenAFS] AFS fails to build on FreeBSD

[Benjamin Kaduk]

On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 11:17:01AM -0400, Michael H Lambert wrote:
> > On 15 Mar 2019, at 11:11, Andreas Ladanyi <andreas.ladanyi@kit.edu> wrote:
> > 
> > AFS 1.6.23 fails to build on FreeBSD 11.2
> > 
> > make tells me:
> > 
> > dont know how to make ./param.amd64_fbsd_112.h. Stop
> > 
> > Could somebody assist me, please ?
> 
> I don't have it in front of me right now, but at least on 1.8.x (I haven't tried 1.6.x), it's necessary to create that file based on the FreeBSD 11.1 version and add a systype for 11.2 into some other file(s) (a grep for fbsd should help).  It was actually pretty straightforward and it seems stable (at least the client; I haven't tried the server).
> 
> Perhaps the FreeBSD maintainer can update ports soon...

The maintainer is having a busy couple weeks...

-Ben