Aside from the obvious "why are you running an old glibc" - would there be
any reason not to include full support for building on old glibc w/ the
correct sysname in the openafs src? Or do the gatekeepers intend to have afs
stop supporting old platforms?
I personally hope not - as transarc really inconvenienced us by dropping
support for HP-UX 10.20 when they went to 3.5 and 3.6.
As for the rpm - I despise those things with a passion. I should be able to
build from cvs without any trouble if it works at all.
-- Nathan
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Derek Atkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 12:26 PM
> To: Neulinger, Nathan R.
> Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: Re: [OpenAFS-devel] Building openafs for old glibc 2.0.x?
>
>
> Ok, provided you're running a 2.2 kernel, then I suppose that
> OpenAFS will work. Feel free to try building from my SRPM,
> it should work. Note that you'll have a 'bad' sysname (since
> RH 5.2 should use i386_linux3, not i386_linux22 that you'll get
> from the RPM).
>
> -derek
>
> PS: I think static linking would be a Bad Idea (TM). Indeed, I'd like
> to see the AFS libraries changed into shared libraries. The apps are
> large enough as they are.
>
> "Neulinger, Nathan R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > They are very stable _servers_ currently - a couple oracle
> servers in
> > particular. They are running a current kernel, but the O/S
> install is old.
> >
> > We won't upgrade any 5.2 _user_ stations, they'll be
> required to move to 6.2
> > first.
> >
> > I doubt we'll upgrade afs client on them in any case, as
> they seem to be
> > running stable without any problems.
> >
> > -- Nathan
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Derek Atkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 11:20 AM
> > > To: Neulinger, Nathan R.
> > > Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> > > Subject: Re: [OpenAFS-devel] Building openafs for old glibc 2.0.x?
> > >
> > >
> > > I'm fairly sure that OpenAFS will still build on RH 5.2, except i
> > > don't know if there is support in there for Linux 2.0.
> Feel free to
> > > try using my 6.2 SPEC-file with OpenAFS 1.0.1.
> > >
> > > Otherwise, I'd suggest you convince your 5.2 users to upgrade to
> > > software which is less than two-years out-of-date.
> > >
> > > -derek
> > >
> > > "Neulinger, Nathan R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > >
> > > > Transarc discontinued support for Redhat 5.2 and the
> old glibc based
> > > > distributions. Unfortunately, we've still got a few
> > > machines running that.
> > > > Do you know if there was any technical reason that the old
> > > glibc had to be
> > > > abandoned or was it simply a case of 'building for the
> > > current stuff'.
> > > >
> > > > Alternatively, is it possible to build the linux afs tools
> > > and afsd staticly
> > > > linked?
> > > >
> > > > -- Nathan
> > > >
> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------
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