On Tue, Sep 25 2012, Simon Wilkinson wrote: > > On 25 Sep 2012, at 18:58, Russ Allbery wrote: > > > Steve Simmons <[email protected]> writes: > > > >> 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. > > > > To fix the AFS Perl module, you basically need all the changes that have > > landed on master to build libtool-based pthreaded libraries, and then the > > AFS Perl module needs to be modified to link with those instead of with a > > mix of pthreaded and LWP libraries. > > Actually, there are some slightly simpler changes than this. I landed > a patch on master a while back that added all of the necessary symbols > to libafsauthent to link perl-AFS against that, and fixed perl-AFS so > that it would work against master. > > Those changes just need pulled up to 1.6, and perl-AFS modified so > that it can handle the interface changes in 1.6. I was hoping to get > that work done for 1.6.2, but haven't had the time so far.
In the first week of October I will release AFS Perl v2.6.3 (linked against OpenAFS 1.4.X). After that I will takle the upgrade to OpenAFS 1.6.X Cheers, Norbert -- _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
