[Top-posting...] This sounds like a lot of work but with excellent results! Great job!
(Ping me if Mark Ellis does not commit the patches... :-) Cheers, David Eriksson, http://www.divideandconquer.se/ On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 23:42 +0400, Ilya Bakulin wrote: > Hi! > It's time to update SynCE in FreeBSD Ports Collection, so I decided to > compile fresh versions of SynCE components. It's worth mentioning that > now I'm runnning FreeBSD 8.0-BETA2, and there are significiant changes > in certain areas between 8.0 and earlier versions. The most important > is that all FreeBSD network subsystem was made MPSAFE, and some network > drivers that were not adapted to be MPSAFE were dropped. Among them is > if_ppp, a driver for kernel-mode PPP implementation. PPPD on FreeBSD > used it, so now PPPD is gone... > Userland ppp is not very flexible solution, for example it cannot look > for configs anywhere except /etc/ppp. So using it for SynCE > configuring violates BSD paradigm of placing all 3rd-party > applications under /usr/local... > Together with Alexander Logvinov I've managed to setup connection via > MPD. MPD is Multilink Ppp Daemon, it may be flexibly configured, has > almost no dependencies and works fast. So, by introducing one extra > dependency we keep synce-hal compatible with FreeBSD 8.0. > > The second issue is HAL itself. In FreeBSD 8, HAL sees devices slightly > different than in older versions. For example, now it's possible to > match against driver name -- it sets "uipaq", not "ucom", in > "freebsd.driver". No more need to modify FDI file and change the vendor > name. > > I'll try to pick up all stated above and send a patch to synce-hal that > will make it work with FreeBSD 8.0. > > There are some other issues besides already described. librapi2 fails > to compile with "--disable-odccm-support", it stops because it doesn't > find symbol "get_connection_from_odccm", file src/support/rapi_context.c > This is because it gets cut by C preprocessor, while the call of this > function remains in code. Attached patch "patch-rapi_context.c" fixes > this issue. > > The second issue is also related to librapi2. It fails to compile > "tests/CeRapiInvoke" because of missing "-I" directives passed to C > compiler. Attached patch "patch-tests-CeRapiInvoke-Makefile.in" fixes > this issue in Makefile.in, but in fact one should add "AM_CFLAGS" to > Makefile.am. > > Hope these remarks will be useful. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > SynCE-Devel mailing list > SynCE-Devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/synce-devel -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ SynCE-Devel mailing list SynCE-Devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/synce-devel
