Building 2.2.8a with spinlocks

[Joe Meslovich]

Well that is the boat I'm in. In the end I will do the kernel patch. Just
right now I'm not allowed to down the system. We have been running with
spinlocks on this system for over a year now.

								Joe


On Mon, 7 Apr 2003, David Collier-Brown -- Customer Engineering wrote:

>    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
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Joe Meslovich						joe at bridgewater.edu
> > Associate Network/Systems Engineer	                IT Center
> > Tel: (540) 828 - 5343
> >
> >
>
>
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>

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Joe Meslovich						joe at bridgewater.edu
Associate Network/Systems Engineer	                IT Center
Tel: (540) 828 - 5343