Hi Simon,
yeah, we have been seeing some of the autoconf tests failing on other
platforms (ppc64 etc) and we decided to remove the -Werror flag from
CFLAGS which is now causing problems even on x86(?), I think..
I think Pete is working on some fixes/workarounds for these...
Thanks,
Murali

On Mon, 15 May 2006, Number Cruncher wrote:

> I think this happens because HAVE_XATTR is not successfully detected by
> configure. There has been a change in
> include/linux/spinlock.h where LOCK_SECTION_NAME is #define'd and the
> KBUILD_BASENAME is not properly set up. Result: the xattr stuff is still
> present in the kernel files but the pvfs kernel module doesn't #include
> <linux/xattr.h>
>
> Not sure what the answer is, but I think the autoconf test is not
> setting the right kernel compilation CFLAGS.
>
> Simon
>
> Murali Vilayannur wrote:
>
> >Hi Peng,
> >Can you point configure to the running kernel's headers/source/build
> >directory and see if things work? You could see this error because of an
> >incorrect path to --with-kernel..
> >Murali
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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