On 2019-07-21 06:59, Jon Turney wrote: > On 21/07/2019 00:15, Brian Inglis wrote: >> I would like to offer to package mtr: >> >> combines the function of 'traceroute' and 'ping' in one network >> diagnostic tool. >> >> Investigates the network connection between the host it runs on and a >> user-specified destination host. After it determines the address of each >> network hop between the machines, it sends a sequence of ICMP ECHO >> requests to each one to determine the quality of the link to each >> machine. As it does this, it prints running statistics about each >> machine. >> >> It is available under all RedHat, Debian, BSD, Arch, Slack, SuSE, and >> other Linux flavours: >> https://pkgs.org/download/mtr >> >> Control files, sources, and binaries are available under the mtr folder: >> https://drive.google.com/open?id=1jxeYZ10mYhmz8YhwE3EOXvd-lVwd176o >> >> See the project home page for more information: >> http://www.bitwizard.nl/mtr/ > > A couple of minor nits: > > mtr is be built with a gtk+ interface for displaying results, if present, but > you've omitted the from DEPENDS. > > Not sure what you intend, so either (i) explicitly configure --without-gtk, or > (ii) add the needed gtk devel package(s) to DEPENDS.
I don't currently run X under Cygwin 32, and many will not, because of memory limits, and did not know whether it might just fail on such systems. I will bite the bullet, and see how rebase does. > After I build this, 'mtr -v' reports 'mtr UNKNOWN' Good catch - wondered what that was meant to be - tests pass! Will look into that, and get back when updated to X and that. > Otherwise, looks good. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada This email may be disturbing to some readers as it contains too much technical detail. Reader discretion is advised.
