On 2009-09-16 18:18, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote: > On 2009-09-15T15:30:14, Florian Haas <[email protected]> wrote: > >> No one seems to have acted on this when it was first posted, but we just >> discussed this on #linux-ha, and Lars and Dejan were kind enough to >> offer an explanation: > > Why is this cross-posted over 3 lists? One would suffice. Ah well.
Misch posted it on linux-ha, it belongs in linux-ha-dev, and just in case I'm wrong and it's in fact Pacemaker related, then Andrew is most likely to read it quickest on pacemaker. That's all. It may be a heuristic too crude for Your Excellency, but it worked for me. :) >> This appears to be the case on any system where libnet (on Debian, >> libnet1-dev) is not available *at compile time*. The obvious workaround, >> per Lars' and Dejan's suggestion, is to compile resource-agents on a >> system with libnet installed. > > No, the right solution would be to fix the stand-alone send_arp and drop > the libnet dependency (libnet is not exactly well maintained), and be > rid of the distinction between the two. See, that's why I referred to a "workaround", rather than a "solution". > The send_arp.linux.c code file has different semantics than > send_arp.libnet.c (I doubt it was ever tested), and can do way more than > we need, but at the same, can't do a few things we want (like sending > both ARP types at once, backgrounding, etc). > > A simple 7 step plan if someone feels like coding a bit of C: > > 1. rm -f send_arp.linux.c > 2. mv send_arp.libnet.c send_arp.c > 3. vi send_arp.c > 4. s/libnet calls/standalone calls/ > 5. fix build > 6. compile > 7. ship > > Patches welcome ;-) > >> Andrew -- assuming you are building packages for RHEL on CentOS, can you >> make sure you pull libnet into the build environment? > > RHEL packages get build on RHEL, not on CentOS. > > FWIW, this also affects IPaddr. Tough luck then. Time to prod the CentOS clustering folks. Fabian? Cheers, Florian
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