On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Peter Clapham wrote: > David Lee wrote: > > [...] > > (Incidentally, part of what I do here on "linux-ha-dev" over the years is > > ensure, as a general principle, that heartbeat has a reasonable chance of > > building and running on other OSes and in a range of environments. Sort > > of a "portability pest".) > > > and many thanks for doing so.
You're welcome. Just sorry I can't devote enough time to it, and systematically and regularly at that, to keep it as good as it should be. > [...] > > So if you have a "sunfreeware" environment, I would be delighted if you > > could test the building of heartbeat on that. The more, the merrier... > > > I have a Solaris 10 box (Intel) with some sunfreeware packages on it. I > can add to this and have a play if this is likely to prove useful to others. Sounds good. A single new platform (e.g. sunfreeware) could shine a light into a hitherto unseen hidden pot-hole; simply reporting that would be good; getting the right fix would help people on many (not just your) platform. Almost all software has portability issues. Even the shining example of Samba, where the portability mantra is right at the very forefront of the core developers' minds, has a trickle of such things. (It's long been my ambition to have a "build farm" possibility, in which people volunteer resources within their own (test!) machines for automated, regular builds of heartbeat. Perhaps "buildbot"? That way, new bugs could get found quickly. But that could be a non-trivial project to set up.) Best wishes. -- : David Lee I.T. Service : : Senior Systems Programmer Computer Centre : : Durham University : : http://www.dur.ac.uk/t.d.lee/ South Road : : Durham DH1 3LE : : Phone: +44 191 334 2752 U.K. : _______________________________________________________ Linux-HA-Dev: [email protected] http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha-dev Home Page: http://linux-ha.org/
