[PVFS-developers] Re: Kernel Build Problem

[Robert Latham]

On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 10:10:46AM -0600, Porter Don wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I was just trying to do some testing against CVS and I could not get the
> kernel module to build.  I am running a RH 7.3 (2.4.18-19.7) kernel which is
> pre-NTPL bustedness.  However, it seems that Redhat did backport the
> for_each_task instead of for_each_process to this kernel, which is
> preventing kpvfsd.c (lines 44-48) from compiling.  
> 
> I suppose that something in the configure script needs to be tweaked a bit
> to get this to compile correctly.

hrm.  So which probalem are you having? is it 

a: when you apply the patch, things still don't build

   or 

b: when you apply the patch, configure doesn't figure out that it
   needs to use the workaround?

thanks
==rob

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Rob Latham
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