1 Copyright 2000, International Business Machines Corporation and others.
4 This software has been released under the terms of the IBM Public
5 License. For details, see the LICENSE file in the top-level
6 directory or online at http://www.openafs.org/dl/license10.html
8 Short instructions for sites upgrading from a previous version of AFS:
9 % ./configure --enable-transarc-paths
13 will create a Transarc-style dest tree in ${SYS_NAME}/dest where
14 ${SYS_NAME} is the AFS sysname of the system you built for.
15 This assumes if you're building for Linux that your kernel source is
18 Otherwise, please read on.
20 Building OpenAFS on UNIX and Linux
21 ----------------------------------
25 Uncompress the source into a directory of your choice. A directory
26 in afs space is also valid. In the directory that you uncompressed the
27 source in, you will only have an src/ directory.
29 1. Pick a system to build for, and note its default AFS sys_name.
30 A directory will be automatically created for binaries to be written
31 into with this name when you build.
34 alpha_nbsd15, alpha_nbsd16
35 amd64_fbsd_80, amd64_fbsd_81, amd64_fbsd_82, amd64_fbsd_83,
36 amd64_fbsd_84, amd64_fbsd_90, amd64_fbsd_91, amd64_fbsd_92,
37 amd64_fbsd_93, amd64_fbsd_100, amd64_fbsd_101
39 amd64_nbsd20, amd64_nbsd30, amd64_nbsd40
40 arm_linux26, arm64_linux26
41 hp_ux11i, hp_ux110, hp_ux1123 (See notes below for information on
42 getting missing header)
43 hp_ux102 (Client port possible, but db servers and utilities work)
44 i386_fbsd_80, i386_fbsd_81, i386_fbsd_82, i386_fbsd_83,
45 i386_fbsd_84, i386_fbsd_90, i386_fbsd_91, i386_fbsd_92,
46 i386_fbsd_93, i386_fbsd_100, i386_fbsd_101
48 i386_nbsd15, i386_nbsd16, i386_nbsd20, i386_nbsd21, i386_nbsd30,
50 i386_obsd31, i386_obsd32, i386_obsd33, i386_obsd34, i386_obsd35,
51 i386_obsd36, i386_obsd37, i386_obsd38, i386_obsd39, i386_obsd40,
54 ia64_hpux1122, ia64_hpux1123
57 ppc_darwin_12, ppc_darwin_13, ppc_darwin_14, ppc_darwin_60,
58 ppc_darwin_70, ppc_darwin_80, ppc_darwin_90
60 ppc_nbsd16, ppc_nbsd20
61 rs_aix42, rs_aix51, rs_aix52, rs_aix53, rs_aix61
64 sgi_62, sgi_63, sgi_64, sgi_65 (file server not tested)
66 sun4x_58, sun4x_59, sun4x_510, sun4x_511
67 (logging UFS not supported for mixed-use partitions containing
69 sunx86_58, sunx86_59, sunx86_510, sunx86_511
70 (logging UFS not supported for mixed-use partitions containing
72 x86_darwin_80, x86_darwin90
74 2. Using configure in the top level directory, configure for your
75 AFS system type, providing the necessary flags:
77 % ./configure --with-afs-sysname=sun4x_58 --enable-transarc-paths
79 If you do not have the "configure" script, or if you modify the
80 source files, you can re-create it by running regen.sh. You will
81 need autoconf to do this.
83 For some systems you need also provide the path in which your kernel
84 headers for your configured kernel can be found. See the
85 system-specific Notes sections below for details. If you want to
86 build only the user-space programs and servers and not the kernel
87 module, specify the --disable-kernel-module option on the
88 ./configure command line.
90 All binaries, except for the 'fileserver' and 'volserver'
91 executables and their 'da' variants, are stripped of their symbol
92 table information by default. To enable a debugging build, specify
93 the --enable-debug option on the ./configure command line. This
94 builds with debugging compiler options and disables stripping of
97 You can also use different combinations of --enable-debug and
98 --enable (or --disable)-strip-binaries for finer control. One can,
99 for example, compile binaries for debug and strip them anyway.
100 Alternatively, one can compile without debug and force the binaries
101 to not be stripped. Note that these combinations are not
104 The binaries noted above, 'fileserver' and 'volserver' and their
105 'da' variants, will never be stripped, regardless of any options
108 There are two modes for directory path handling: "Transarc mode" and
111 - In Transarc mode, we retain compatibility with Transarc/IBM AFS tools
112 by putting client configuration files in /usr/vice/etc, and server
113 files in /usr/afs under the traditional directory layout.
114 - In default mode, files are located in standardized locations, usually
115 under $(prefix), which defaults to /usr/local.
116 - Client programs, libraries, and related files always go in standard
117 directories under $(prefix). This rule covers things that would go
118 into $(bindir), $(includedir), $(libdir), $(mandir), and $(sbindir).
119 - Other files get located in the following places:
121 Directory Transarc Mode Default Mode
122 ============ ========================= ==============================
123 viceetcdir /usr/vice/etc $(sysconfdir)/openafs
124 afssrvdir /usr/afs/bin (servers) $(libexecdir)/openafs
125 afsconfdir /usr/afs/etc $(sysconfdir)/openafs/server
126 afslocaldir /usr/afs/local $(localstatedir)/openafs
127 afsdbdir /usr/afs/db $(localstatedir)/openafs/db
128 afslogdir /usr/afs/logs $(localstatedir)/openafs/logs
129 afsbosconfig $(afslocaldir)/BosConfig $(afsconfdir)/BosConfig
130 afsbosserver $(afsbindir)/bosserver $(sbindir)/bosserver
132 In default mode, you can change all of the variables named above that
133 do not start with "afs" by passing the flags with the same name to
134 configure. For example, if you want to install the server binaries in
135 /usr/local/lib/openafs instead of /usr/local/libexec/openafs, pass the
136 --libexecdir=/usr/local/lib flag to configure.
138 For additional options, see section I below.
142 1. Now, you can build OpenAFS.
146 2. Install your build using either "make install" to install
147 into the current system (you will need to be root, and files
148 will be placed as appropriate for Transarc or standard paths),
149 "make install DESTDIR=/some/path" to install into an alternate
150 directory tree, or if you configured with --enable-transarc-paths
151 make dest to create a complete binary tree in the dest directory
152 under the directory named for the sys_name you built for,
153 e.g. sun4x_57/dest or i386_linux26/dest
155 3. As appropriate you can clean up or, if you're using Linux, build for
156 another kernel version.
164 If you have a problem building this source, you may want to visit
165 http://www.openafs.org/ to see if any problems have been reported
166 or to find out how to get more help.
168 Mailing lists have been set up to help; More details can be found
169 on the openafs.org site.
173 With current Linux versions, the /lib/modules/`uname -r`/source symlink
174 will be used to locate the kernel headers, but you will need to have
175 the headers and build system for your kernel installed in order to
176 build the kernel module. These are usually found in a separate package
177 from the kernel, often called something like linux-headers-<version>.
179 For older Linux systems, you may also need to provide the path in which
180 your kernel headers for your configured kernel can be found. This
181 should be the path of the directory containing a child directory named
182 "include". So if your version file were
183 /usr/src/linux/include/linux/version.h you would run:
185 % ./configure --with-afs-sysname=i386_linux26 \
186 --with-linux-kernel-headers=/usr/src/linux
188 Currently you can build for only one Linux kernel at a time, and the
189 version is extracted from the kernel headers in the root you specify.
191 To build for another Linux kernel version, determine the sysname for
192 the system type as defined in step A1 for the other kernel version and
195 % ./configure --with-afs-sysname=<sysname> \
196 --with-linux-kernel-headers=/usr/src/linux-3.19-i686
199 Your build tree will now include an additional kernel module for your
200 additional kernel headers. Be aware that if the kernel version string
201 which UTS_RELEASE is defined to in include/linux/version.h matches the
202 last kernel you built for, the previous kernel module will be
205 The Linux 2.4 series (and older) are no longer supported. The OpenAFS 1.6
206 series of releases are the last ones supporting those old kernels and in
207 particular their LinuxThreads.
211 HP-UX 11.0 requires a header called vfs_vm.h which HP has provided on
212 their web site. Go to http://www.hp.com/dspp, choose Software
213 downloads from the side menu, and select Software: HP operating systems
214 and then Operating systems: HP-UX from the select boxes. The last
215 select box will have an option for downloading vfs_vm.h.
219 If you need to run regen.sh to make the configure script, you should
220 first install autoconf-2.59, then setenv AUTOCONF_VERSION 2.59.
222 You need kernel source installed to build OpenAFS. Use the
223 --with-bsd-kernel-headers= configure option if your kernel source is
226 src/packaging/OpenBSD/buildpkg.sh will make a tar file for installing
227 the client. There is no server package, but I am told that "make
228 install" will put server binaries in /usr/afs.
230 Your kernel may panic when you try to shutdown after running the
231 OpenAFS client. To prevent this, change the "dangling vnode" panic in
232 sys/kern/vfs_syscalls.c to a printf and build a new kernel.
234 You can't run arla and OpenAFS at the same time.
238 The FreeBSD client supports FreeBSD 10.x and later. Only the amd64
239 and i386 architectures are supported, but it should not be hard to
240 port to other processors if they are already supported under another
243 You need kernel source installed to build OpenAFS. Use the
244 --with-bsd-kernel-headers= configure option if your kernel source is
247 You also need access to your kernel build directory for the opt_global.h
248 include file. Use the --with-bsd-kernel-build= configure option if your
249 kernel build is not GENERIC in the standard place. If
250 /usr/src/sys/${CPUARCH}/compile/GENERIC does not point to
251 /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC you may need to resolve that and retry the
256 Make sure that your default build environment is 32bit, ie.
257 the OBJECT_MODE environment variable is either unset or set to "32".
259 Verify this before doing configure and make. For example, assuming
262 % export OBJECT_MODE=32
264 To build aklog (in order to be able to get tokens from your Kerberos v5
265 ticket), you will need Kerberos libraries. On AIX 6.1, the IBM
266 Kerberos v5 libraries are in the packages krb5.client.rte and
267 krb5.toolkit.adt on the Expansion Pack.
269 I Other configure options
271 AFS has a ton of other optional features that must be enabled using
272 configure options. Here is a summary:
275 --enable-littleendian
276 These configure options are normally not required and should not be
277 given. They're only needed if the OpenAFS build system cannot
278 determine the endianness of your system, in which case configure
279 will abort and say to use one of these options.
281 --enable-bitmap-later
282 Speeds the startup of the fileserver by deferring reading volume
283 bitmaps until necessary. Demand attach is a better solution to the
287 Enable compiler warnings when building with GCC and turn compiler
288 warnings into errors so that new warnings will cause compilation
289 failures. If you are developing patches to contribute to OpenAFS,
290 please build OpenAFS with this flag enabled. Warning-free code is
291 a requirement for all new submissions to OpenAFS.
294 --enable-debug-kernel
297 Compile the userspace code (for --enable-debug) or the code named
298 by the option with debugging information. If --enable-debug is
299 given, also do not strip binaries when installing them.
301 --enable-linux-d_splice_alias-extra-iput
302 Work around a kernel memory leak present in a few Linux kernels.
303 The only affected mainline kernels are 3.17 to 3.17.2, but this
304 switch will also be required should a distribution backport commit
305 908790fa3b779d37365e6b28e3aa0f6e833020c3 or commit
306 95ad5c291313b66a98a44dc92b57e0b37c1dd589 but not the fix in commit
307 51486b900ee92856b977eacfc5bfbe6565028070 from the linux-stable repo
308 (git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git) or
309 the corresponding changes on other branches. This is impossible to
310 detect automatically. Without this switch, the openafs module will
311 build and work even with affected kernels. But it will leak kernel
312 memory, leading to performance degradation and eventually system
313 failure due to memory exhaustion.
315 --enable-linux-syscall-probing
316 OpenAFS now uses keyrings to manage PAGs by default on Linux, which
317 does not require hooking into the system call table. On older
318 versions of Linux without keyring support, OpenAFS uses groups to
319 manage PAGs and probes for the system call table to hook into it to
320 preserve that group information. Normally, which method to use is
321 detected automatically, and if keyring support is present, support
322 for system call table probing is not compiled in. Use this
323 configure option to force inclusion of the system call table
324 probing code even if the kernel appears to support keyrings.
326 --enable-namei-fileserver
327 Forces the namei fileserver on platforms (like Solaris 8 and 9)
328 where the inode fileserver is the default.
330 --enable-redhat-buildsys
331 Enable compilation of the kernel module for the Red Hat build
332 system kernel. Use this configure flag when building kernel
333 modules for Red Hat Linux systems.
335 --enable-reduced-depends
336 Try to minimize the shared library dependencies encoded in the
337 binaries. This omits from the link line all the libraries included
338 solely because the Kerberos libraries depend on them and instead
339 links the programs only against libraries whose APIs are called
340 directly. This will only work with shared Kerberos libraries and
341 will only work on platforms where shared libraries properly encode
342 their own dependencies (such as Linux). It is intended primarily
343 for building packages for Linux distributions to avoid encoding
344 unnecessary shared library dependencies that make shared library
345 migrations more difficult. If none of the above made any sense to
346 you, don't bother with this flag.
349 Enables support of nested groups in the ptserver. WARNING: Once
350 you make use of this option by nesting one group inside another,
351 the resulting PTS database cannot be correctly and safely used by a
352 ptserver built without this option. If some of your ptservers were
353 built with this option and some without this option, you will
354 probably corrupt your PTS database.
357 Build with the Tivoli TSM API libraries for butc support of the
358 Tivoli backup system.
360 --enable-transarc-paths
361 As discussed in A2 above, build for the traditional paths used by
362 the Transarc and IBM AFS distributions instead of the more typical
363 open source /usr/local paths. Passing this option to configure and
364 then running make dest will generate, in the dest directory, the
365 set of files and directory layout matching a Transarc or IBM AFS
369 Enable compilation warnings when built with GCC. This is similar
370 to --enable-checking, but new warnings will only be displayed, not
371 cause a build failure.
373 It's also possible to disable some standard features. None of these
374 options are normally needed, but they may be useful in unusual
377 --disable-kernel-module
378 Even if kernel headers are found, do not attempt to build the
379 kernel module. On Linux, if you provide this flag, you'll also
380 need to provide --with-afs-sysname, since OpenAFS cannot determine
381 the correct sysname automatically without the kernel headers.
384 --disable-optimize-kernel
385 --disable-optimize-lwp
386 --disable-optimize-pam
387 Disable optimization for the given portion of the OpenAFS code.
388 Usually used either for debugging to avoid code optimization making
389 it harder to use a debugger, or to work around bugs in the compiler
390 optimizers or in the OpenAFS code.
393 Do not build the AFS PAM modules. Normally building them is
394 harmless, but the PAM modules that come with OpenAFS are deprecated
395 and should not be used unless you're still using the OpenAFS
396 kaserver (which is itself deprecated and should not be used).
398 --disable-pthreaded-ubik
399 Disable the threaded version of Ubik and install the LWP
400 versions of Ubik servers.
402 --disable-strip-binaries
403 Disable stripping of binaries on installation. You probably want
404 to use --enable-debug instead of this flag to also inclusion of
405 debugging information.
407 --disable-unix-sockets
408 Disable use of UNIX domain sockets for fssync. A TCP connection to
409 localhost will be used instead.
411 You may need to pass one or more of the following options to specify
412 paths and locations of files needed by the OpenAFS build process or
413 additional information required by the build process:
415 --with-afs-sysname=SYSNAME
416 Specifies the AFS sysname of the target system is SYSNAME.
417 Normally this is determined automatically from the build
418 architecture plus additional information (such as, on Linux, from
419 the kernel headers). The SYSNAME should be one of the options
423 --with-gssapi-include=DIR
424 --with-gssapi-lib=DIR
426 --with-krb5-include=DIR
428 Normally, OpenAFS will automatically build with Kerberos support if
429 Kerberos is found during the build. If your Kerberos libraries are
430 in an unusual location, however, you may need to pass one or more
431 of these flags. --with-krb5 forces building with Kerberos support
432 if given and will cause configure to fail if Kerberos is not found.
433 You may optionally specify the root path to your Kerberos
434 installation as an argument to --with-krb5.
436 If you have a krb5-config script, it's used to find the flags to
437 build with Kerberos. If you have no krb5-config script, you can
438 specify the location to the include files with --with-krb5-include
439 and the libraries with --with-krb5-lib. You may need to do this if
440 Autoconf can't figure out whether to use lib, lib32, or lib64 on
443 --with-gssapi is similar, except for the GSS-API libraries instead
444 of the Kerberos libraries. If you have to manually set the
445 location of the Kerberos libraries, you may need to do the same
446 thing for the GSS-API libraries.
449 --with-libintl-include=DIR
450 --with-libintl-lib=DIR
451 Specifies the install location of the libintl library, used for
452 internationalization, or separately specifies the location of the
453 header files and libraries. By default, the default system library
454 paths will be searched. This library is not required on many
458 --with-roken=internal
459 Specifies the install location of the libroken library. Specify
460 "internal" to use the embedded libroken library that comes with
461 OpenAFS (the default). This option is primarily useful for
462 building against a system libroken library if you have one.
464 --with-linux-kernel-build=PATH
465 --with-linux-kernel-headers=PATH
466 --with-bsd-kernel-build=PATH
467 --with-bsd-kernel-headers=PATH
468 Specifies the path to the kernel headers and build system. See the
469 information above for Linux and *BSD systems.
471 --with-linux-kernel-packaging
472 Tells the OpenAFS kernel module build system to use conventions
473 appropriate for building modules to include in Linux kernel module
474 packages. Primarily, this renames the kernel module to openafs.ko
475 rather than libafs-<VERSION>.ko, which is easier to handle in Linux
476 distribution init scripts.
478 --with-docbook2pdf=PROGRAM
479 Specifies the program used to convert the DocBook manuals to PDF.
480 Supported choices are fop, dblatex, and docbook2pdf. By default,
481 the user's path is searched for those programs in that order, and
482 the first one found is used.
484 --with-docbook-stylesheets=PATH
485 The location of the DocBook style sheets, used to convert the
486 DocBook manuals to other formats. By default, a set of likely
490 Specifies the XSLT style sheet to convert DocBook manuals into
491 HTML. The default is html/chunk.xsl. You may wish to use
492 html/docbook.xsml instead.
494 --with-xslt-processor=PROGRAM
495 Specifies the XSLT processor to use to convert the DocBook manuals
496 into HTML. Supported choices are libxslt, saxon, xalan-j, and
497 xsltproc. By default, the user's path is searched for those
498 programs in that order, and the first one found is used.
500 --with-ctf-tools[=DIR]
501 Location of ctfconvert and ctfmerge. Defaults to detect. These
502 tools create a reduced form of debug information that describes
503 types and function prototypes. This option is only relevant to
504 platforms that provide CTF tools and, at the moment, it is only
505 functional on Solaris (onbld package must be installed).
507 There are also some environment variables that you can set to control
508 aspects of the build. They can be set either on the configure command
509 line (preferred) or in the environment.
512 The C compiler to use. Be aware that this is overridden on some
513 architectures that require a specific compiler be used to build the
514 kernel module. If gcc is used, version 3 or later is required.
515 If clang is used, version 3 or later is required. (Additional
516 restrictions apply when --enable-checking is used.)
519 Additional flags to pass to the C compiler.
522 The C preprocessor to use. Defaults to cpp if found, otherwise
526 Additional flags to pass to the C preprocessor or compiler. This
527 is where to put -I options to add paths to the include file search.
530 Compiler flags required for building applications that use FUSE.
533 Libraries required for linking applications that use FUSE.
536 To specify a particular krb5-config script to use, either set the
537 KRB5_CONFIG environment variable or pass it to configure like:
539 ./configure KRB5_CONFIG=/path/to/krb5-config
541 To not use krb5-config and force library probing even if there is a
542 krb5-config script on your path, set KRB5_CONFIG to a nonexistent
545 ./configure KRB5_CONFIG=/nonexistent
548 Additional flags to pass to the linker. This is where to put -L
549 options to add paths to the library search.
552 Additional libraries to link all userspace programs with.
555 The path to the pkg-config utility. Currently, this is only used
556 to locate the flags for building the FUSE version of afsd.
559 The yacc implementation to use. Defaults to bison, byacc, or yacc,
560 whichever is found first.
563 Additional flags to pass to yacc.