[Box Backup] Compiling boxbackup chris-merge on debian etch?

Tobias Balle-Petersen boxbackup@fluffy.co.uk
Sat, 07 Jul 2007 21:57:14 +0200


Hello Chris.

I'm running Debian on the machine in question. Not OS X.

What was the problem you fixed that allows me to complete the tests now?

I'll run a ./runtest.pl ALL release and post the results.

Tobias

Chris Wilson wrote:
> Hi Tobias,
> 
> Wee, that was a bit long :-)
> 
> I'm not sure, but I have a sneaking feeling that I've seen this problem
> on Darwin (and therefore OSX) before, and that it relates to delayed
> deletion of files, which makes it a race condition and hard to pin down.
> 
> I'd advise you not to run a mission-critical box backup server on this
> OSX box. However, I don't believe that this has changed since 0.10, so
> if you are already running servers on OSX then I don't see any
> particular reason not to upgrade them to this new version.
> 
> Apart from that, all tests are fine in debug mode. Could you rerun in
> release mode please?
> 
>     ./runtest ALL release
> 
> Cheers, Chris.