On Sun, Aug 14, 2022 at 22:24 Jeffrey E Altman (jalt...@auristor.com) < jalt...@auristor.com> wrote:
> On 8/14/2022 7:01 PM, Ben Huntsman (b...@huntsmans.net) wrote: > > Sure, I agree for testing that's fine. > > But, there is evidence to suggest that this has compiled successfully on > AIX 6.1 and 7.2 in the past, and this issue would have occurred there. > > Ben, > > > The change that you referred to as being similar to the build failure on > AIX is dated Sept 2013. > > > AIX 6.1 was last updated in November 2013. AIX 7.2 was first released in > December 2015. > > > The initial use of krb5_c_make_random_key() was added to OpenAFS in 2007 > but it was for test infrastructure which might not have been built for > AIX. In the years since additional use of that function has been added to > the source tree. However, it is unclear to me at least whether such > changes were built on AIX. > > > The comments on https://gerrit.openafs.org/#/c/14707/3 which was the tip > of the series that added symbols for AIX 7.2 state that the build on AIX > succeeded only if the kernel module was not built and if all linkage was > static. That change series is a little over a year old. > > > The last combination that I can find evidence of the AIX kernel module > working was OpenAFS 1.6.5 and AIX 6.1 TL5 which would have been 32-bit. > OpenAFS 1.6.5 was released in July 2013. > > And there was work needed for even that, given the incompatible struct mbuf changes that broke things across TL5 I would not expect 7.1 to work without at least some kernel changes. -- -- Daria Phoebe Brashear AuriStor, Inc. dariaphoebe.com
