The OrangeFS makefile already uses the -fPIC flag where appropriate. You do
not have to set CFLAGS.

Hope that helps,
Elaine


On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 9:33 AM, vithanousek <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> At first excuse my poor level of english.
>
> I got in problems when I comiled OrangeFS 2.8.7 (current stable), with
> CFLAGS="-fPIC". I was navigated by OpenMPI with ROMIO, to recompile
> OrangeFS with this flag, without this flag compilation works without
> problems, but I need OrangeFS at first for ROMIO.
>
> I compiled OrangeFS by this way:
> export CFLAGS="-fPIC"
> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/orangefs
> --with-kernel=/usr/src/kernels/2.6.32-431.5.1.el6.x86_64 --with-openib=/usr
> --without-bmi-tcp
> make -j32
> make -j32 kmod
> (...)
> /root/orangefs-2.8.7/src/kernel/linux-2.6/pvfs2-utils.c: In function
> 'pvfs2_gen_credentials':
> /root/orangefs-2.8.7/src/kernel/linux-2.6/pvfs2-utils.c:26: error: 'struct
> task_struct' has no member named 'fsuid'
> /root/orangefs-2.8.7/src/kernel/linux-2.6/pvfs2-utils.c:27: error: 'struct
> task_struct' has no member named 'fsgid'
> (... and same error, on multilpe places and in multiple files...)
>
> I made dirty hack of this problem by editing source code nad changing
> ->fsuid to ->cred->fsuid (and ->fsgid to ->cred->fsgid) in files
> pvfs2-kernel.h, pvfs2-utils.c, inode.c and acl.c, and I can sucesfully
> compiled code  and sucesfull use OrangeFS (ROMIO not tested yet).
>
> But I think this is hack, no solution. I find, that there is diference
> between output of ./configure with and without "-fPIC" flag at this place:
> (with flag): checking for current_fsuid... no
> (without flag): checking for current_fsuid... yes
> And Im realy dont know if this fPIC flag can have something common with
> this, but I think this is the source of problems, becase without this flag
> currrent_fsuid() function is used, not direct acces to current->fsuid
> (which is available only in kernels <2.6.29).
>
> when i was searchnig for definition of currrent_fsuid() I find that is
> defined in kernel in include/linux/cred.h as:
>
> #define current_fsuid()         (current_cred_xxx(fsuid))
>
> and current_creed_xxx as:
>
> #define current_cred_xxx(xxx)            \
> ({                                                           \
>         current->cred->xxx;                     \
> })
>
> I think, that this macros ,if are used, generate code, which i hardcoded
> before to sourcecode as my hack.
> So I came to conclusion that there is an problem with tests in configure
> scrits. But ti can, or cannot be True.
> I cannot used myself edited sourcode on our cluster, is it a Bug in
> OrangeFS or Somewhere or am I doing something wrong?
>
> Im compiling it Centos 6.5 (x86-64), with kernel
> 2.6.32-431.5.1.el6.x86_64.
>
> Thank for reply.
> Hanousek Vít
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