I orinally tried running Coda on Redhat 7.0 and ran into several
problems.  So, I switched to Redhat 6.2 and have had much fewer
problems.  From my experiences, Redhat 6.2 will work a lot better.

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Ryan M. Lefever

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  [217.244.8887]
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  Graduate Research Assistant 
  Center for Reliable and High-Performance Computing -- PERFORM
  Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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On Mon, 21 May 2001, GiantWEB wrote:

> Do U suggest using redhat 6.2 for now?
> 
> I need a stable version to test..
> 
> Thanks,
> -Matt
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jan Harkes [mailto:jaharkes_at_cs.cmu.edu]
> Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 5:44 PM
> To: Ajay S. Kang
> Cc: 
> Subject: Re: 5.3.14 compile problem
> 
> 
> On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 05:25:18PM -0400, Ajay?S. Kang wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I downloaded coda 5.3.14, lwp 1.7, rpc2 1.11 and rvm 1.4 and was able
> > to configure and make lwp,rpc2 and rvm sucessfully. The configure
> > script for coda also ran without errors. However when I ran make I
> > got the following:
> 
> RedHat 7.1, I know.
> 
> I've already got a bunch of these fixed up, tried compiling using a
> gcc-3.0 beta release. However I'm stuck at some very broken looking
> varargs parsing code in venus/vol_cml.cc.
> 
> > another error. Since I didn't see any queries on the mailing list
> > about this I suspect the error is not something as simple as a few
> > missing #includes... Am I missing something in the make process?
> 
> No, you are just using a bleeding edge version of the gcc which is a lot
> stricter about using functions without prototypes etc. Hopefully the
> next Coda release will pass through the compiler correctly. You can also
> grab a copy from our CVS tree and see how far that one gets you.
> 
> Jan
> 
>