On Feb 6, 2017, at 18:34 , Ted Creedon wrote: > why not use vm's for all non linux builds?
Because it will be just about as hard to find a system capable of hosting those VMs? Most, if not all, Linux build slaves are VMs. So were the Windows ones. Looks like it has largely been forgotten already that virtualizing anything not x86[_64] still isn't quite as trivial? - Stephan > ________________________________________ > From: openafs-info-ad...@openafs.org <openafs-info-ad...@openafs.org> on > behalf of Pascal Salet <pascal.sa...@wu.ac.at> > Sent: Monday, February 6, 2017 5:07 AM > To: openafs-info@openafs.org > Subject: Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS 1.6.20.1 on AIX 7.1 > >>> I would be very grateful for any advice on this matter. >> >> Pascal, >> >> To the best of my knowledge there has been no active development of >> OpenAFS on any AIX release since January 2015. At that time the AIX 6 >> build machine was removed from the build farm because the organization >> that provided it for many years could no longer afford to do so. >> >> It does not surprise me if over the last two years there has been >> drift between OpenAFS and AIX; especially a new major release of AIX. >> >> To answer your question, I am unaware of anyone that has installed >> OpenAFS on AIX 7.1. >> >> If you can provide more details on the failure, perhaps the community >> can assist? >> >> If the ability to use OpenAFS on AIX 7.1 is important to your >> institution, perhaps it would be willing to provide a build host for use >> by the developer community. >> >> Jeffrey Altman > > Jeffrey, > > thank you very much for clarifying this. > > I will inquire if the university can provide a build-host with AIX7 on > our former PowerPC-server. This may or may not be feasible, according to > administrative policies or product licenses. > > The options used are > ## > ./configure -with-afs-sysname=rs_aix61 --enable-tivoli-tsm \\ > --enable-transarc-paths --disable-pam --includedir=/usr/include > ## > > After copying the binaries manually to /usr/afs/ and /usr/vice/etc/ > according to > https://wiki.openafs.org/archive/HowToBuildOpenAFSFromSource/ > and executing rc.afs, the server freezes and reboots. > > Pascal > _______________________________________________ > OpenAFS-info mailing list > OpenAFS-info@openafs.org > https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info > _______________________________________________ > OpenAFS-info mailing list > OpenAFS-info@openafs.org > https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
