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List: freebsd-openoffice
Subject: Re: [porting-dev] Build fails on NFS volume
From: Volker Quetschke <quetschke () scytek ! de>
Date: 2003-10-15 10:19:50
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(Crossposting to openoffice@freebsd.org because this might be of
some interest)
Problem was: openoffice-devel cannot be build on NFS.
>>>- use NFS instead of local file system
>>
>>Aha, that sounds like a 'file locking over NFS' issue.
>
> Seems so. I just copied the whole tree to a local partition, and now
> everything seems to compile fine (though it's far from being finished by now
> :-).
>
>>I've seen such things before on Linux, when the NFS 'lockd' is not
>>running (some / few distributions have / had too 'clever' NFS startup
>>scripts, omitting to start 'lockd'). Just starting 'lockd' usually
>>solved all NFS file locking problems.
>
> In my experience locking via NFS is a real pain. I've never seen a working
> lockd on Linux or *BSD (only on commercial unices like Solaris :-). Perhaps
> this has changed meanwhile. However, just starting lockd didn't help, but
> maybe the system needs a reboot for this to work (the manpage is somewhat
> ambiguous here :-). I'll reboot the system and try NFS with activated lockd/statd
> as soon as the local compile has successfully finished.
The NFS server is a FreeBSD 4.8 machine and despite of
<http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2003-April/000592.html>
we started the rpc.lockd on that machine.
That helped and the build continued ....
Volker
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