Harald Barth wrote:
> 
> > Transarc AFS Product Support has confirmed that building AFS from source
> > is not possible for export customers with the Makefiles they provide.
> > They advised me to ask on this list if any other export customer has
> > figured out how to do this, i.e. has patched the top-level Makefile.
> 
> Oh well, that means export customers are not entitled to the same
> level of quality in spite of buying the same product?

I don't think this is a question of quality. The point is: US government
doesn't allow export of some parts of the source code. Of course,
Transarc could provide a kind of "export Makefile" and advise export
customers to build AFS in a different manner. So if you'd like to call
this quality, well ...

> > BTW, of course I know that Open AFS is announced and should be available
> > soon. Hopefully compilation will work for all types of customers.
>
> It does not seem to be too far away. Some say: "Abwarten, Bier trinken"
> (*).

Good proposal (although I remembered something with tea ...). I will
consider this! ;-)

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