FAQs: Development

Can I write my application data and logs into EFS?

No, EFS is not designed as a general purpose file system. It’s used to store and distribute read-only binaries, libraries, configuration files and other data that is not changing.

For development using GCC from EFS, do I need locally installed libraries/headers?

When using GCC from EFS, please make sure that the machine you’re building on contain a locally installed copy of the glibc and glibc-devel headers. These packages will be called glibc-x.y.z and glibc-devel-x.y.z as well as glibc-common-x.y.z and glibc-headers-x.y.z. On one of our compile servers for example, the following packages are installed. Your versions may vary, depending on the version of the distribution you’re using (RHEL4 vs. RHEL5 for example).

• glibc-2.3.2-95.44
• glibc-devel-2.3.2-95.44
• glibc-kernheaders-2.4-8.34.2
• glibc-common-2.3.2-95.44
• glibc-headers-2.3.2-95.44