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List:       cfs-users
Subject:    Re: CFS on Redhat 7.1
From:       "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb () research ! att ! com>
Date:       2001-07-12 22:52:21
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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

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