On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:24:18 +0100 Matthias Gerstner <[email protected]> wrote:
> > If possible: "don't do that" :) The user is going to get faster > > compiles on local disk anyway, and I don't expect e.g. intermediary > > .o files to be very important. > > That's understood. The users that do it don't do it for fun but > because they have sources and sometimes also binaries available on > different machines without having to sync data at different places all > the time. You can (usually) have the sources in AFS, and have the resultant binaries in AFS, without having to build in AFS. With most (or at least many) autoconf-enabled source trees, you can just run /afs/foo/bar/configure while your pwd is somewhere else (e.g. local disk), make, and 'make install DESTDIR=/afs/somepath' to put the results somewhere else. Other build systems do that, too, of course; that's just an example common with autoconf/GNU-y stuff. I'm just mentioning that, not to solve your current problem, but if users want their compiles to not be so slow... but there's many situations where you can't do that, as Patty mentioned, and some source trees just plain don't support it, etc etc. -- Andrew Deason [email protected] _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
