At the moment I asked, I was working on building a server, but of course I'll need clients too!
When I realized (in the docs) that there was a test server over at CMU, I thought I would give that a try, too. My client is a FreeBSD 4.7 system that I had already made back in the spring. It's a DNS server and will become a client of the server I am building. You're tip on which Coda software matches which FreeBSD saved me grief. And I thank you for that. I did end up building Coda client and associated software with the ports collection mechanism, and that worked pretty much without a glitch.
There was one glitch building Coda client 5.3.19 - when compiling coda-src/kerndep/pioctl.c it bombed out due to redeclarations of the int8_t and other types. Out of expediency in getting something working, I put the following in include/coda.h, which worked just fine for me:
#define __BIT_TYPES_DEFINED__
Another glitch I ran into was in venus-setup - it did not create the needed device node when it called MAKEDEV. The answer there was to add a '0' at the end of the cfs string inside venus-setup: from ./MAKEDEV cfs to ./MAKEDEV cfs0 and MAKEDEV happy.
Of course, I realize this is an older Coda and these problems might already be fixed in a newer revision. But for completeness, here they are.
wade
On Monday, October 20, 2003, at 06:13 PM, Tim Robbins wrote:
Wade Stebbings wrote: [...]
I have a FreeBSD 4.8 system on which I would like to experiment with CODA. I downloaded:
coda-6.0.3.tar.gz lwp-1.10.tar.gz rpc2-1.20.tar.gz rvm-1.8.tar.gz
You might find it easier to build the Coda client & server from the ports collection or from binary packages. They include some patches that were necessary to make them compile on FreeBSD 4.
Also keep in mind that the Coda 6.x client does not work on FreeBSD 4 due to missing kernel support - you'll need to use the 5.x client or run FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT.
Tim
