Darren J Moffat <darrenm at opensolaris.org> wrote:
> Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am still waiting for a sponsor for integrating star.
> > Star is an archiving library that implements CLIs for
> > various archiver programs and that implements various
> > archive formats.
>
> Are you wanting to integrate this into the ON consolidation or to SFW ?
For a complete implementation of 2004/480, we would need to have it in ON
in case that ON should be self contained. Note that for a complete
implementation, ufsdump/ufsrestore need to link against librmt.
I propose do do it in three steps:
1) SFW integration
2) ON integration
3) upgrading the ufsdump/ufsrestore source to allow linking against
librmt.
> If you are targeting SFW (and I strongly suggest you do) then you may
> have better success getting help by posting a webrev of the changes to
> SFW to the sfw-discuss at opensolaris.org alias.
I see a problem with SFW: I could not find any documentation on the makefile
system in use with SFW. I would at least know the target names ans the expected
results in order to write a wrapper Makefile that calls the schily makefile
system for the real compilation.
BTW: there is a similar problem with ON. While it would be possible to search
for similar makefiles that could be modified, I know of no documentation of the
ON makefile system and I could not yet find the place ans system where/how the
ON build system calls rpcgen as this would be the right place to hook the
dynamic autoconfiguration part of the portability system that is used by star.
> I'm afraid I'm not personally skilled enough in SFW to act as your
> sponsor. Though I've prototyped the changes necessary for star in the
> past to integrate into SFW and you can find those in the sfw-discuss
> archives.
I've seen your other mail and I could check this if I manage to find how to
download a template makefile tree for SFW. Thank you for your code....
Star-1.5 however is no longer apropriate as there have been some bug fixes
since then and I did not have the time to create a new star specific tarball -
there currently only exists the schily source consolidation snapshots from
ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily/
> If you are targeting ON then this is the appropriate alias to use, but
> someone else will need to help you as I'm quite opposed to integrating
> cross platform stuff into ON if it doesn't have to share private
> interfaces with some thing else in ON - it just hurts the portability
> and maintenance of that thing. Note I speak from (bitter) experience
> here with Kerberos, SSH, OpenSSL and others being in ON.
Star shares the cross platform stuff with many other tools. I am talking about
~ 8 MB (~ 330000 lines) of pure source code.
> If you do still want to target ON (or in fact SFW) you may have better
> luck finding a sponsor if you post a webrev of the proposed changes.
See above, I believe that the best way to go is to do it in several steps.
J?rg
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