[comp.soft-sys.andrew] AMDS and AFS3.1

bernerus@CS.CHALMERS.SE (Christer Bernerus) (01/24/91)

I tried to build ATK PL9 with AMDS and AFS3.1

The build stops in overhead/snap2/snap2/guardian since the library
libauth.a no longer contains the entries U_Authenticate,
U_CellAuthenticate etc. Transarc seems to have removed these entries.
What should I do ?

Chris.
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Craig_Everhart@TRANSARC.COM (01/24/91)

The AFS 3.0 versions of U_Authenticate and U_CellAuthenticate were
no-ops, though earlier versions did something real.  AFS 3.1 removed
those no-op routines.  Clearly, there could be replacement functions
that actually did something, but they're not packaged up at present.

For the moment, you could turn off (not define) SNAP_ENV in your site.h
file.  You could still build and run AMS and AMDS, and you simply
wouldn't get the snap-ified AMS interfaces that talk to a remote message
server.

The ITC has been working for some time with a version of the rest of
Andrew that compiles with AFS 3.1 (with the support for the unused
bcrypt-style authentication taken out), but PL9 apparently doesn't yet
have those changes.  I don't know anything simple to suggest about
either (1) how to find out what those changes are to apply them to your
Andrew copy, or (2) when they are expected to appear in an official
Andrew patch.

		Craig

gk5g+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Gary Keim) (01/25/91)

Excerpts from misc: 24-Jan-91 AMDS and AFS3.1 Christer Bernerus@cs.cha (529+0)

> The build stops in overhead/snap2/snap2/guardian since the library
> libauth.a no longer contains the entries U_Authenticate,
> U_CellAuthenticate etc. Transarc seems to have removed these entries.
> What should I do ?

Support for AFS3.1 will be in patch.10.  That patch can be expected
around the end of Feb.

Gary Keim
ATK Group