Building 2.2.8a with spinlocks

[David Collier-Brown -- Customer Engineering]

   Ok, but you probably want to avoid spinlocks
unless you aren't allowed to use the Sun patch
(the latest version of the Kernel Jumbo Patch,
to be exact!) that fixes a lock algorithm problem.

--dave


Joe Meslovich wrote:
> I am trying to compile 2.2.8a on Solaris 8. In the past I have had to add
> -lrt to the libs to get it to compile properly. This time I also had to
> edit the following set of lines in the Makefile:
> 
> 
> bin/tdbbackup: $(TDBBACKUP_OBJ) bin/.dummy
>         @echo Linking $@
>         @$(CC) $(FLAGS) -o $@ $(TDBBACKUP_OBJ)
> 
> I had to add -lrt at the end of "@$(CC) $(FLAGS) -o $@ $(TDBBACKUP_OBJ)"
> for it to build. Otherwise it complained that nanosleep in spinlock.o was
> not referenced.
> 
> 							Joe
> 
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> Joe Meslovich						joe at bridgewater.edu
> Associate Network/Systems Engineer	                IT Center
> Tel: (540) 828 - 5343
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> 


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