The last bit of discussion on perlafs with openafs 1.6 seemed to end with the note below. If there's been progress on this, can anyone point us at patches/whatever? We've got a person here who's trying to use AFS perl interfaces on gentoo with AFS 1.6, and he's not having much joy.
Advance thanks, Steve From: Norbert Gruener <[email protected]> Date: April 23, 2012 9:32:19 AM EDT To: OpenAFS <[email protected]> Cc: Stephen Quinney <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [OpenAFS] Perl AFS on EL6/x86_64 with 1.6 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 _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
