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Re: CFS on Redhat 7.1
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
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From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
To: John R MacMillan <cfs-user@weirdways.com>
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Subject: Re: CFS on Redhat 7.1
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In message <200107081640.f68Ges101232@elixir.weirdways.com>, John R MacMillan w
rites:
>Has anyone managed to get CFS built on RedHat 7.1? It seems to use
>a version of glibc which won't work with the gcc -traditional flag
>that's been required previously to build on Linux.
>
>I'm getting kind of tired of always having to hack around the
>Linux rpcgen every time I try to build CFS, and I'm willing to try
>to actually patch the CFS source to work with either rpcgen, but
>if somebody has already done the work, I'll happily be lazy. :-)
>
>On a somewhat related note, while I was looking around for this, I
>found something called cfs-1.4.1.tar.gz, which the VERSION file
>says is 1.4.1, but the README still says 1.4.0beta. What really is
>current these days?
>
1.4.1 contained some fixes of mine to make cfs work with NetBSD. The
hard part was fighting rpcgen. I suspect that there's a good chance
the same hacks will help on Linux as well.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb
