Hi Stephen, On Tue, Apr 03 2012, Stephen Quinney wrote: > I believe there are some patches floating around which make it > possible to build and run the perl AFS module on RHEL6 x86_64 with > openafs version 1.6. Does anyone know anything about these? Or can > anyone point me in the right direction as to what needs doing?
in September 2011, Simon Wilkinson wrote on this OpenAFS mailing list > > Yes, perl-AFS doesn't really work on 64bit platforms. This is > > because its library dependencies are all a bit of a mess - it mixes > > PIC and non-PIC libraries, as well as mingling pthread and LWP code > > in the same object. It just about gets away with this on 32 bit > > platforms, but this doesn't work on 64bit, and no longer works with > > OpenAFS 1.6.0. > > > > I've been doing some work on sorting all of this out. This requires > > some OpenAFS library changes (so that we provide PIC versions of all > > of the symbols perl-AFS needs), which will be in 1.6.1, as well as > > patches to the perl-AFS code itself. I had contacted him about those changes, but so far there are no adapted libraries available. At the moment I am doing the final tests for a new release of AFSPerl v2.6.3. But this will only work with OpenAFS 1.4.X After that release I will try to make the step towards OpenAFS 1.6.X with support from Simon and maybe some other OpenAFS developers. Cheers, Norbert -- Ceterum censeo Redmond esse delendam. _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
