Peter Tribble wrote:
On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 09:13, Alan Burlison wrote:
To get the CPAN verison version to work, just remove the version
check grom the Makefile.PL. Unfortunately the CPAN version of
Kstat and the version in Solaris have diverged - the version in
Solaris requires headers that are not yet open source. The
consequence is that the CPAN version is missing a few
hardware-specific kstats, and doesn't support the automatic
trimming of NULLs from string values.
I notice that the perl kstat source is listed in the "plans not
set" section of the currently unreleased code list. Are there problems
with the module itself, or is it just that it has dependencies?
One of the reasons I ask is that I have written code based on having
access to that source (it was present in earlier code drops, certainly
during the pilot phase) and now wonder how careful I need to be?
(I think I'm safe, in that I haven't done any hardware-specific code -
well, no sparc code anyway as I've done the work on an opteron box -
and I could go to other parts of the source tree to see how the kstats
are created rather than cheating by cutting'n'pasting the answer from
the perl code. But I would like to know where to go from here.)
Hi Peter,
I believe the problem is not with the perl kstat source itself, but
that it is dependent on some hardware code whose plans aren't set yet.
Alan would be the expert though...
cheers,
steve
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