On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 8:53 AM, Mike Coyne <[email protected]> wrote:
> Maybe something as simple as adding a build option to the openafs configure 
> --with-libkopenafs-only compile and link only the objs that you need 
> something like what goes into libsys.a currently, that way it would stay in 
> sync with the distribution.

That's actually a quite reasonable idea (though some people who'd want
to use libkopenafs as part of another project might not care for it)

> In thinking of a problem I am currently working on, I have been having 
> problems getting header files from SGI for a older Altix running SuSe, So I 
> can't build openafs for it. It does have a old copy of Hidemal on it and a 
> libkafs.a , if I link against that and finaly get 1.4.11 up and running will 
> that create a incompatibility with the "new in 1.4.11"  linux PAG handeling? 
> If so is there a version of libkopenafs that can be build with 1.4.11 , if 
> not maybe use Russ Allbery's  compatibility package in kstart?

It's conceivable your Heimdal is old enough to not work with the afs
syscall replacement we use, but the PAG handling is kernel-internal,
so either it will work or not.
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