[Box Backup-dev] RC 3 testing: NetBSD 3.0 fails

[Per Thomsen]

On 2/21/06 9:52 AM, Martin Ebourne wrote:
> Per Thomsen <pthomsen@reedtz.com> wrote:
>> There are several instances of pointer conversions that the compiler
>> will not accept. To get the build working, I simply changed them to what
>> worked. These are mostly related to the 'EV_SET' macro in <sys/event.h>.
>> It might need to be ifdef'ed, or a macro created for each platform, or
>> something.
>
> Casting a pointer to an int is out of the question. We need to find a
> better solution for these casts, but I don't think now's the time. If
> you can knock together a short configure.ac patch that skips the
> kqueue check on netbsd (should be about 3 lines) then we can go with
> that for now.
I'll do that, but I think the test failures preclude releasing anything
for NetBSD in 0.10. There are several test failures, that I can't figure
out at this point.
>
>> I'm relatively confident in the mount-point changes I made, but
>> obviously would like feedback on it. There is a different way to do some
>> of the changes I made (involving creating a macro for the statfs/statvfs
>> call), and if you don't like the way it looks now, that's an easy
>> change.
>
> These look fine & I'll commit these unless anyone else raises issues.
That's fine, but I'd hate to release half a NetBSD port. As long as
we're not putting this into 0.10, I think it's fine.

Thanks,
Per

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