windley@cheetah.ucdavis.edu (Phil Windley/20000000) (09/05/89)
A couple of days ago, I posted a problem that I was having making GNU Emacs. I received several helpful replies from people suggesting that they had successfully made it without the problem I encountered. The problem seems to be that I was trying to make it on an NFS mounted directory. After moving the source to a local disk, I was able to make it. This brings up another question. Why can't I make GNU on a remote file system? After all, when you have 11M of source, its nice to be able to stick it on a big server somewhere. I don't know enough about NFS to hazard a guess. --phil-- -- Phil Windley | windley@iris.ucdavis.edu Division of Computer Science | ucbvax!ucdavis!iris!windley College of Engineering | (916) 752-7324 (or 3168) University of California, Davis | Davis, CA 95616
schwartz@shire.cs.psu.edu (Scott Schwartz) (09/06/89)
In Phil Windley writes: | This brings up another question. Why can't I make GNU on a remote file | system? After all, when you have 11M of source, its nice to be able to | stick it on a big server somewhere. I don't know enough about NFS to | hazard a guess. We do this all the time (under BSD, not AIX). Were you compiling as root? [Old] NFS maps root on clients to nobody on the server. Speaking of old NFS, why hasn't IBM shipped SunRPC 4.0 / NFS4.0 with AOS yet??? The RPC is free, and has been available for over a year now. The old RPC code doesn't function properly (do a "ruptime SomeRt" from a Sun to see what I mean) and the new code does. Also, RT users around here would really like to be able to take advantage of the new NFS functionality. -- Scott Schwartz <schwartz@shire.cs.psu.edu> "APAR's? We don' neeed no steeenking APARS!"