(I'm the Debian OpenAFS maintainer and don't use Ubuntu, but I'm happy to help out if I can.)
I'm curious exactly what is failing. To know what's failing, I'd need to see the config.log output around the test for rlim. Something is causing compilation against the kernel headers to fail, and I don't know off-hand of anything prior to 2.6.18 that causes those failures. There are changes in 2.6.18 that can cause this, which were fixed in the OpenAFS 1.4.2 release. Note that there are other types of brokenness besides compilation failures that can affect AMD64 in particular, but I think they were all introduced in 2.6.18. The compilation failure that you're seeing is very generic and only means that the Linux header files didn't compile properly with the expectations that OpenAFS uses. I strongly suspect that you're not actually seeing Bug#358203, which as you mention was already fixed in the version that's in Ubuntu, but instead are seeing some completely different problem that just has the same very generic symptoms. -- openafs kernel modules don't build with edgy kernel 2.6.17 https://launchpad.net/bugs/52298 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
