Re: AIX build fails with missing symbol .krb5_c_make_random_key

On Sun, Aug 14, 2022 at 22:24 Jeffrey E Altman ([email protected]) <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On 8/14/2022 7:01 PM, Ben Huntsman ([email protected]) wrote:
>
> Sure, I agree for testing that's fine.
>
> But, there is evidence to suggest that this has compiled successfully on
> AIX 6.1 and 7.2 in the past, and this issue would have occurred there.
>
> Ben,
>
>
> The change that you referred to as being similar to the build failure on
> AIX is dated Sept 2013.
>
>
> AIX 6.1 was last updated in November 2013.   AIX 7.2 was first released in
> December 2015.
>
>
> The initial use of krb5_c_make_random_key() was added to OpenAFS in 2007
> but it was for test infrastructure which might not have been built for
> AIX.  In the years since additional use of that function has been added to
> the source tree.  However, it is unclear to me at least whether such
> changes were built on AIX.
>
>
> The comments on https://gerrit.openafs.org/#/c/14707/3 which was the tip
> of the series that added symbols for AIX 7.2 state that the build on AIX
> succeeded only if the kernel module was not built and if all linkage was
> static.   That change series is a little over a year old.
>
>
> The last combination that I can find evidence of the AIX kernel module
> working was OpenAFS 1.6.5 and AIX 6.1 TL5 which would have been 32-bit.
> OpenAFS 1.6.5 was released in July 2013.
>
>
And there was work needed for even that, given the incompatible struct mbuf
changes that broke things across TL5

I would not expect 7.1 to work without at least some kernel changes.
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