Hi guys,
Yep.. The kernel.m4 tests dont do the right thing on ppc64 (even on x86_64
I had this problem I think)
probably the kernel headers are not sanitized for -Werror?
I sent an email about these problems a while back
http://www.beowulf-underground.org/pipermail/pvfs2-developers/2006-April/001970.html
Thanks,
Murali


On Sat, 13 May 2006, Robert Latham wrote:

> On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 08:06:34PM -0400, Pete Wyckoff wrote:
> > Can you (or Murali) describe what was the problem that required
> > removing -Werror?  I'll keep trying to think of ways to do the test
> > without -Werror.  As things stand, though, configure generates the
> > wrong value for x86_64 2.6.16, and warnings pop up at compile time.
>
> This is the "big hammer" appraoch to getting pvfs2 correctly
> configured on some ppc64 machines.  In my experience (limited to our
> SLES 9 BGL login nodes), -Werror didn't matter as long as you had -m64
> in your CFLAGS.  However, Murali's experience on Fedora PPC64
> suggests that -Werror is too picky.
>
> Please go ahead and add -Werror if that's what it takes on x86_64.
> We'll figure out a way to make Fedora PPC64 work.
>
> ==rob
>
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