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, rs_aix71,
65 sgi_65 (file server not tested)
67 sun4x_58, sun4x_59, sun4x_510, sun4x_511
68 (logging UFS not supported for mixed-use partitions containing
70 sunx86_58, sunx86_59, sunx86_510, sunx86_511
71 (logging UFS not supported for mixed-use partitions containing
73 x86_darwin_80, x86_darwin90
75 2. Using configure in the top level directory, configure for your
76 AFS system type, providing the necessary flags:
78 % ./configure --with-afs-sysname=sun4x_58 --enable-transarc-paths
80 If you do not have the "configure" script, or if you modify the
81 source files, you can re-create it by running regen.sh. You will
82 need autoconf to do this.
84 For some systems you need also provide the path in which your kernel
85 headers for your configured kernel can be found. See the
86 system-specific Notes sections below for details. If you want to
87 build only the user-space programs and servers and not the kernel
88 module, specify the --disable-kernel-module option on the
89 ./configure command line.
91 All binaries, except for the 'fileserver' and 'volserver'
92 executables and their 'da' variants, are stripped of their symbol
93 table information by default. To enable a debugging build, specify
94 the --enable-debug option on the ./configure command line. This
95 builds with debugging compiler options and disables stripping of
98 You can also use different combinations of --enable-debug and
99 --enable (or --disable)-strip-binaries for finer control. One can,
100 for example, compile binaries for debug and strip them anyway.
101 Alternatively, one can compile without debug and force the binaries
102 to not be stripped. Note that these combinations are not
105 The binaries noted above, 'fileserver' and 'volserver' and their
106 'da' variants, will never be stripped, regardless of any options
109 There are two modes for directory path handling: "Transarc mode" and
112 - In Transarc mode, we retain compatibility with Transarc/IBM AFS tools
113 by putting client configuration files in /usr/vice/etc, and server
114 files in /usr/afs under the traditional directory layout.
115 - In default mode, files are located in standardized locations, usually
116 under $(prefix), which defaults to /usr/local.
117 - Client programs, libraries, and related files always go in standard
118 directories under $(prefix). This rule covers things that would go
119 into $(bindir), $(includedir), $(libdir), $(mandir), and $(sbindir).
120 - Other files get located in the following places:
122 Directory Transarc Mode Default Mode
123 ============ ========================= ==============================
124 viceetcdir /usr/vice/etc $(sysconfdir)/openafs
125 afssrvdir /usr/afs/bin (servers) $(libexecdir)/openafs
126 afsconfdir /usr/afs/etc $(sysconfdir)/openafs/server
127 afslocaldir /usr/afs/local $(localstatedir)/openafs
128 afsdbdir /usr/afs/db $(localstatedir)/openafs/db
129 afslogsdir /usr/afs/logs $(localstatedir)/openafs/logs
130 afsbosconfig $(afslocaldir)/BosConfig $(afsconfdir)/BosConfig
131 afsbosserver $(afsbindir)/bosserver $(sbindir)/bosserver
133 In default mode, you can change all of the variables named above that
134 do not start with "afs" by passing the flags with the same name to
135 configure. For example, if you want to install the server binaries in
136 /usr/local/lib/openafs instead of /usr/local/libexec/openafs, pass the
137 --libexecdir=/usr/local/lib flag to configure. The individual directories
138 can also be overriden by using environment variables. For example,
139 'afslogsdir=/var/log/openafs ./configure ...'
141 For additional options, see section I below.
145 1. Now, you can build OpenAFS.
149 2. Install your build using either "make install" to install
150 into the current system (you will need to be root, and files
151 will be placed as appropriate for Transarc or standard paths),
152 "make install DESTDIR=/some/path" to install into an alternate
153 directory tree, or if you configured with --enable-transarc-paths
154 make dest to create a complete binary tree in the dest directory
155 under the directory named for the sys_name you built for,
156 e.g. sun4x_57/dest or i386_linux26/dest
158 3. As appropriate you can clean up or, if you're using Linux, build for
159 another kernel version.
167 If you have a problem building this source, you may want to visit
168 http://www.openafs.org/ to see if any problems have been reported
169 or to find out how to get more help.
171 Mailing lists have been set up to help; More details can be found
172 on the openafs.org site.
176 With current Linux versions, the /lib/modules/`uname -r`/source symlink
177 will be used to locate the kernel headers, but you will need to have
178 the headers and build system for your kernel installed in order to
179 build the kernel module. These are usually found in a separate package
180 from the kernel, often called something like linux-headers-<version>.
182 For older Linux systems, you may also need to provide the path in which
183 your kernel headers for your configured kernel can be found. This
184 should be the path of the directory containing a child directory named
185 "include". So if your version file were
186 /usr/src/linux/include/linux/version.h you would run:
188 % ./configure --with-afs-sysname=i386_linux26 \
189 --with-linux-kernel-headers=/usr/src/linux
191 Currently you can build for only one Linux kernel at a time, and the
192 version is extracted from the kernel headers in the root you specify.
194 To build for another Linux kernel version, determine the sysname for
195 the system type as defined in step A1 for the other kernel version and
198 % ./configure --with-afs-sysname=<sysname> \
199 --with-linux-kernel-headers=/usr/src/linux-3.19-i686
202 Your build tree will now include an additional kernel module for your
203 additional kernel headers. Be aware that if the kernel version string
204 which UTS_RELEASE is defined to in include/linux/version.h matches the
205 last kernel you built for, the previous kernel module will be
208 The minimum supported Linux kernel is 2.6.18.
212 HP-UX 11.0 requires a header called vfs_vm.h which HP has provided on
213 their web site. Go to http://www.hp.com/dspp, choose Software
214 downloads from the side menu, and select Software: HP operating systems
215 and then Operating systems: HP-UX from the select boxes. The last
216 select box will have an option for downloading vfs_vm.h.
220 If you need to run regen.sh to make the configure script, you should
221 set the environment variable AUTOCONF_VERSION to the installed autoconf
222 version, e.g. 'setenv AUTOCONF_VERSION 2.64' (see 'J' below).
224 You need kernel source installed to build OpenAFS. Use the
225 --with-bsd-kernel-headers= configure option if your kernel source is
228 src/packaging/OpenBSD/buildpkg.sh will make a tar file for installing
229 the client. There is no server package, but I am told that "make
230 install" will put server binaries in /usr/afs.
232 Your kernel may panic when you try to shutdown after running the
233 OpenAFS client. To prevent this, change the "dangling vnode" panic in
234 sys/kern/vfs_syscalls.c to a printf and build a new kernel.
236 You can't run arla and OpenAFS at the same time.
240 The FreeBSD client supports FreeBSD 10.x and later. Only the amd64
241 and i386 architectures are supported, but it should not be hard to
242 port to other processors if they are already supported under another
245 You need kernel source installed to build OpenAFS. Use the
246 --with-bsd-kernel-headers= configure option if your kernel source is
249 You also need access to your kernel build directory for the opt_global.h
250 include file. Use the --with-bsd-kernel-build= configure option if your
251 kernel build is not GENERIC in the standard place. If
252 /usr/src/sys/${CPUARCH}/compile/GENERIC does not point to
253 /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC you may need to resolve that and retry the
258 Make sure that your default build environment is 32bit, ie.
259 the OBJECT_MODE environment variable is either unset or set to "32".
261 Verify this before doing configure and make. For example, assuming
264 % export OBJECT_MODE=32
266 To build aklog (in order to be able to get tokens from your Kerberos v5
267 ticket), you will need Kerberos libraries. On AIX 6.1, the IBM
268 Kerberos v5 libraries are in the packages krb5.client.rte and
269 krb5.toolkit.adt on the Expansion Pack.
271 You also may need to install following packages: bos.adt.debug,
272 bos.adt.syscalls, and bos.adt.utils. These are available from the AIX
273 install media, sometimes located in /usr/sys/inst.images.
275 We only support building with the IBM XL C family of compilers. We do not
276 yet support building the kernel module with XL C 17.1 and higher.
278 I Other configure options
280 AFS has a ton of other optional features that must be enabled using
281 configure options. Here is a summary:
284 --enable-littleendian
285 These configure options are normally not required and should not be
286 given. They're only needed if the OpenAFS build system cannot
287 determine the endianness of your system, in which case configure
288 will abort and say to use one of these options.
290 --enable-bitmap-later
291 Speeds the startup of the fileserver by deferring reading volume
292 bitmaps until necessary. Demand attach is a better solution to the
296 Enable compiler warnings when building with GCC and turn compiler
297 warnings into errors so that new warnings will cause compilation
298 failures. If you are developing patches to contribute to OpenAFS,
299 please build OpenAFS with this flag enabled. Warning-free code is
300 a requirement for all new submissions to OpenAFS.
303 --enable-debug-kernel
306 Compile the userspace code (for --enable-debug) or the code named
307 by the option with debugging information. If --enable-debug is
308 given, also do not strip binaries when installing them.
310 --enable-linux-d_splice_alias-extra-iput
311 Work around a kernel memory leak present in a few Linux kernels.
312 The only affected mainline kernels are 3.17 to 3.17.2, but this
313 switch will also be required should a distribution backport commit
314 908790fa3b779d37365e6b28e3aa0f6e833020c3 or commit
315 95ad5c291313b66a98a44dc92b57e0b37c1dd589 but not the fix in commit
316 51486b900ee92856b977eacfc5bfbe6565028070 from the linux-stable repo
317 (git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git) or
318 the corresponding changes on other branches. This is impossible to
319 detect automatically. Without this switch, the openafs module will
320 build and work even with affected kernels. But it will leak kernel
321 memory, leading to performance degradation and eventually system
322 failure due to memory exhaustion.
324 --enable-linux-syscall-probing
325 OpenAFS now uses keyrings to manage PAGs by default on Linux, which
326 does not require hooking into the system call table. On older
327 versions of Linux without keyring support, OpenAFS uses groups to
328 manage PAGs and probes for the system call table to hook into it to
329 preserve that group information. Normally, which method to use is
330 detected automatically, and if keyring support is present, support
331 for system call table probing is not compiled in. Use this
332 configure option to force inclusion of the system call table
333 probing code even if the kernel appears to support keyrings.
335 --enable-namei-fileserver
336 Forces the namei fileserver on platforms (like Solaris 8 and 9)
337 where the inode fileserver is the default.
339 --enable-redhat-buildsys
340 Enable compilation of the kernel module for the Red Hat build
341 system kernel. Use this configure flag when building kernel
342 modules for Red Hat Linux systems.
344 --enable-reduced-depends
345 Try to minimize the shared library dependencies encoded in the
346 binaries. This omits from the link line all the libraries included
347 solely because the Kerberos libraries depend on them and instead
348 links the programs only against libraries whose APIs are called
349 directly. This will only work with shared Kerberos libraries and
350 will only work on platforms where shared libraries properly encode
351 their own dependencies (such as Linux). It is intended primarily
352 for building packages for Linux distributions to avoid encoding
353 unnecessary shared library dependencies that make shared library
354 migrations more difficult. If none of the above made any sense to
355 you, don't bother with this flag.
358 Enables support of nested groups in the ptserver. WARNING: Once
359 you make use of this option by nesting one group inside another,
360 the resulting PTS database cannot be correctly and safely used by a
361 ptserver built without this option. If some of your ptservers were
362 built with this option and some without this option, you will
363 probably corrupt your PTS database.
366 Build with the Tivoli TSM API libraries for butc support of the
367 Tivoli backup system.
369 --enable-transarc-paths
370 As discussed in A2 above, build for the traditional paths used by
371 the Transarc and IBM AFS distributions instead of the more typical
372 open source /usr/local paths. Passing this option to configure and
373 then running make dest will generate, in the dest directory, the
374 set of files and directory layout matching a Transarc or IBM AFS
378 Enable compilation warnings when built with GCC. This is similar
379 to --enable-checking, but new warnings will only be displayed, not
380 cause a build failure.
382 It's also possible to disable some standard features. None of these
383 options are normally needed, but they may be useful in unusual
386 --disable-kernel-module
387 Even if kernel headers are found, do not attempt to build the
388 kernel module. On Linux, if you provide this flag, you'll also
389 need to provide --with-afs-sysname, since OpenAFS cannot determine
390 the correct sysname automatically without the kernel headers.
393 --disable-optimize-kernel
394 --disable-optimize-lwp
395 --disable-optimize-pam
396 Disable optimization for the given portion of the OpenAFS code.
397 Usually used either for debugging to avoid code optimization making
398 it harder to use a debugger, or to work around bugs in the compiler
399 optimizers or in the OpenAFS code.
402 Do not build the AFS PAM modules. Normally building them is
403 harmless, but the PAM modules that come with OpenAFS are deprecated
404 and should not be used unless you're still using the OpenAFS
405 kaserver (which is itself deprecated and should not be used).
407 --disable-pthreaded-ubik
408 Disable the threaded version of Ubik and install the LWP
409 versions of Ubik servers.
411 --disable-strip-binaries
412 Disable stripping of binaries on installation. You probably want
413 to use --enable-debug instead of this flag to also inclusion of
414 debugging information.
416 --disable-unix-sockets
417 Disable use of UNIX domain sockets for fssync. A TCP connection to
418 localhost will be used instead.
420 You may need to pass one or more of the following options to specify
421 paths and locations of files needed by the OpenAFS build process or
422 additional information required by the build process:
424 --with-afs-sysname=SYSNAME
425 Specifies the AFS sysname of the target system is SYSNAME.
426 Normally this is determined automatically from the build
427 architecture plus additional information (such as, on Linux, from
428 the kernel headers). The SYSNAME should be one of the options
432 --with-gssapi-include=DIR
433 --with-gssapi-lib=DIR
435 --with-krb5-include=DIR
437 Normally, OpenAFS will automatically build with Kerberos support if
438 Kerberos is found during the build. If your Kerberos libraries are
439 in an unusual location, however, you may need to pass one or more
440 of these flags. --with-krb5 forces building with Kerberos support
441 if given and will cause configure to fail if Kerberos is not found.
442 You may optionally specify the root path to your Kerberos
443 installation as an argument to --with-krb5.
445 If you have a krb5-config script, it's used to find the flags to
446 build with Kerberos. If you have no krb5-config script, you can
447 specify the location to the include files with --with-krb5-include
448 and the libraries with --with-krb5-lib. You may need to do this if
449 Autoconf can't figure out whether to use lib, lib32, or lib64 on
452 --with-gssapi is similar, except for the GSS-API libraries instead
453 of the Kerberos libraries. If you have to manually set the
454 location of the Kerberos libraries, you may need to do the same
455 thing for the GSS-API libraries.
458 --with-libintl-include=DIR
459 --with-libintl-lib=DIR
460 Specifies the install location of the libintl library, used for
461 internationalization, or separately specifies the location of the
462 header files and libraries. By default, the default system library
463 paths will be searched. This library is not required on many
467 --with-roken=internal
468 Specifies the install location of the libroken library. Specify
469 "internal" to use the embedded libroken library that comes with
470 OpenAFS (the default). This option is primarily useful for
471 building against a system libroken library if you have one.
473 --with-linux-kernel-build=PATH
474 --with-linux-kernel-headers=PATH
475 --with-bsd-kernel-build=PATH
476 --with-bsd-kernel-headers=PATH
477 Specifies the path to the kernel headers and build system. See the
478 information above for Linux and *BSD systems.
480 --with-linux-kernel-packaging
481 Tells the OpenAFS kernel module build system to use conventions
482 appropriate for building modules to include in Linux kernel module
483 packages. Primarily, this renames the kernel module to openafs.ko
484 rather than libafs-<VERSION>.ko, which is easier to handle in Linux
485 distribution init scripts.
487 --with-docbook2pdf=PROGRAM
488 Specifies the program used to convert the DocBook manuals to PDF.
489 Supported choices are fop, dblatex, and docbook2pdf. By default,
490 the user's path is searched for those programs in that order, and
491 the first one found is used.
493 --with-docbook-stylesheets=PATH
494 The location of the DocBook style sheets, used to convert the
495 DocBook manuals to other formats. By default, a set of likely
499 Specifies the XSLT style sheet to convert DocBook manuals into
500 HTML. The default is html/chunk.xsl. You may wish to use
501 html/docbook.xsml instead.
503 --with-xslt-processor=PROGRAM
504 Specifies the XSLT processor to use to convert the DocBook manuals
505 into HTML. Supported choices are libxslt, saxon, xalan-j, and
506 xsltproc. By default, the user's path is searched for those
507 programs in that order, and the first one found is used.
509 --with-ctf-tools[=DIR]
510 Location of ctfconvert and ctfmerge. Defaults to detect. These
511 tools create a reduced form of debug information that describes
512 types and function prototypes. This option is only relevant to
513 platforms that provide CTF tools and, at the moment, it is only
514 functional on Solaris (onbld package must be installed).
516 There are also some environment variables that you can set to control
517 aspects of the build. They can be set either on the configure command
518 line (preferred) or in the environment.
521 The C compiler to use. Be aware that this is overridden on some
522 architectures that require a specific compiler be used to build the
523 kernel module. If gcc is used, version 3 or later is required.
524 If clang is used, version 3 or later is required. (Additional
525 restrictions apply when --enable-checking is used.)
528 Additional flags to pass to the C compiler.
531 The C preprocessor to use. Defaults to cpp if found, otherwise
535 Additional flags to pass to the C preprocessor or compiler. This
536 is where to put -I options to add paths to the include file search.
539 Compiler flags required for building applications that use FUSE.
542 Libraries required for linking applications that use FUSE.
545 To specify a particular krb5-config script to use, either set the
546 KRB5_CONFIG environment variable or pass it to configure like:
548 ./configure KRB5_CONFIG=/path/to/krb5-config
550 To not use krb5-config and force library probing even if there is a
551 krb5-config script on your path, set KRB5_CONFIG to a nonexistent
554 ./configure KRB5_CONFIG=/nonexistent
557 Additional flags to pass to the linker. This is where to put -L
558 options to add paths to the library search.
561 Additional libraries to link all userspace programs with.
564 The path to the pkg-config utility. Currently, this is only used
565 to locate the flags for building the FUSE version of afsd.
568 The yacc implementation to use. Defaults to bison, byacc, or yacc,
569 whichever is found first.
572 Additional flags to pass to yacc.
574 J Creating 'configure'
576 Normally you can use the configure script provided with the OpenAFS release
577 tar file, but if you are patching the autoconf logic or building directly
578 from source pulled from the git repository you may need to (re-)generate
579 the configure script.
581 To create the configure script autoconf-2.64 or later and libtool-1.9b or
584 Running the script 'regen.sh' creates the configure script. In addition
585 to creating the configure script, regen.sh will also, by default, build
586 the man pages, which requires the pod2man utility. Use 'regen.sh -q' to
587 skip building the man pages.
589 It is possible to create the configure script on one system to be used on
590 another. Ensure that the files created by 'regen.sh' are copied to the