Patches to get Arla running on FreeBSD 8-CURRENT

[Marc G. Fournier]

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Can we commit these patches to ports itself, maybe with the make file setup so 
6.x is marked BROKEN while dealing with the problems there?  Might get more 
testers involved ... ?



- --On Saturday, February 23, 2008 10:12:49 -0600 Alec Kloss 
<alec-keyword-arla.4d43de at SetFilePointer.com> wrote:

> Sorry for the chatter... arla makes me excited.  :)
>
> I've gotten Robert's patches compiled and running under -CURRENT,
> RELENG_7, and RELENG_6.  A FreeBSD port and FreeBSD packages are
> available at
>
> 	http://setfilepointer.com/pub/afs/FreeBSD/
>
> All of the heavy lifting is done in the big patch at
>
> 	http://setfilepointer.com/pub/arla/20080223-arla.diff
>
> This was generated by taking a current snapshot from arla's CVS,
> applying Robert's original patch, and then adding a handful of
> fixes of my own.  The jist of my changes are autoconf corrections,
> and one test for NNPFS_DEBUG_PRIV which is undefined on -CURRENT.
> There's a general autoconf problem running around that a few tests
> require -Werror to work correctly some can't have -Werror to work
> correctly.
>
> I've run the "-all -fast" tests which don't cause any major issues
> on RELENG_7 and -CURRENT, but I do seem to be able to panic 6.x
> with those tests.  More testers and feedback would be appreciated.
>
> Can anyone from Arla comment on the chances for incorporating
> these patches into Arla itself?  It'd be nice to have these changes
> in Arla itself prior to submitting the port to FreeBSD.
>
> And, can anyone comment on need for the arla port to include 0.43,
> which works on FreeBSD 5.x?
>
> Robert, thanks so much for your time.  I owe you (at least) a beer.
>
> --
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