Re: [OpenAFS] AFS 1.6.0 and AFS-perl module version 2.6.2

2011-10-09 Thread Norbert Gruener
On Mon, Sep 19 2011, Simon Wilkinson wrote: On 19 Sep 2011, at 09:45, Staffan Hämälä wrote: I've been trying to compile the AFS perl module against openAFS 1.4.14 on a 64-bit CentOS 6 Linux machine, but it looks like it's not easy to get it to work. Yes, perl-AFS doesn't really work

[OpenAFS] AFS 1.6.0 and AFS-perl module version 2.6.2

2011-09-19 Thread Staffan Hämälä
I've been trying to compile the AFS perl module against openAFS 1.4.14 on a 64-bit CentOS 6 Linux machine, but it looks like it's not easy to get it to work. My AFS install (RPM based) is missing the libraries libafsauthent_pic.a and libafsrpc_pic.a. A google search tells me that these are

Re: [OpenAFS] AFS 1.6.0 and AFS-perl module version 2.6.2

2011-09-19 Thread Simon Wilkinson
On 19 Sep 2011, at 09:45, Staffan Hämälä wrote: I've been trying to compile the AFS perl module against openAFS 1.4.14 on a 64-bit CentOS 6 Linux machine, but it looks like it's not easy to get it to work. Yes, perl-AFS doesn't really work on 64bit platforms. This is because its library

Re: [OpenAFS] AFS 1.6.0 and AFS-perl module version 2.6.2

2011-09-19 Thread Staffan Hämälä
On 2011-09-19 10:56, Simon Wilkinson wrote: Yes, perl-AFS doesn't really work on 64bit platforms. This is because its library dependencies are all a bit of a mess - it mixes PIC and non-PIC libraries, as well as mingling pthread and LWP code in the same object. It just about gets away with

Re: [OpenAFS] AFS 1.6.0 and AFS-perl module version 2.6.2

2011-09-19 Thread Russ Allbery
Simon Wilkinson s...@inf.ed.ac.uk writes: On 19 Sep 2011, at 09:45, Staffan Hämälä wrote: I've been trying to compile the AFS perl module against openAFS 1.4.14 on a 64-bit CentOS 6 Linux machine, but it looks like it's not easy to get it to work. Yes, perl-AFS doesn't really work on 64bit