[Linux-cluster] GFS compile errors on FC3

[Birger Wathne]

Peter Bosgraaf wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> I'm trying to get the latest GFS snapshot to work under FC3.
> The compilation dies at the following line:

The latest snapshot of the head branch is very unstable and internally 
inconsistent at the moment

Get the latest snapshot of the RHEL4 branch instead.
cvs -d :pserver:cvs at sources.redhat.com:/cvs/cluster checkout -r RHEL4 cluster

> ./configure --kernel_src=/usr/src/linux

You dont need to install kernel source. You can use
./configure --kernel_src=/lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/
to use the stubs that come with the kernel.

There is no branch that compiles cleanly on FC3. RHEL4 is the one I got to 
work with a few modifications.

You will have to edit 2 files that complain about an undefined variable. You 
can find my fix in an earlier message on this list. As long as you don't 
intend to use lock_nolock you shouldn't have to worry about the correctness 
of my fix :-). If on the other hand you intend to do so I would investigate 
further... And there is one fix where I commented out two lines of code that 
are intended to give a quota warning. For some reason the compiler doesn't 
like it. I am not about to use quotas, so again... No worry for me :-)

-- 
birger