[Box Backup-dev] boxbackup-0.09_plus2 under Cygwin

Chris Wilson boxbackup-dev at fluffy.co.uk
Mon Feb 6 22:44:45 GMT 2006


Hi all,

On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 07:32 -0800, Gary wrote:
> I just tried to take the new boxbackup-0.09_plus2 for a spin, but ran
> into two problems:
> 
> 1.) Configure is very slow, sometimes takes 10 seconds to make a
> single check (25 minutes for an incomplete run).

I didn't get that - configure runs OK for me. What kind of system are
you running it on? Is your cygwin up to date?

> 2.) Configure bombs out with the following error:
> checking for sys/mnttab.h... no
> checking for sys/mount.h... yes
> checking for struct statfs.f_mntonname... no
> checking for struct mntent.mnt_dir... no
> checking for struct mnttab.mnt_mountp... no
> configure: error: cannot work out how to discover mount points on your platform

With a fair amount of hacking, I was able to get Box trunk to compile on
Cygwin, but it doesn't work. When bbackupd tries to connect to the
store, it fails with the following error:

> Exception caught (Connection Protocol_ObjTooBig 7/42), reset state and
> waiting to retry...

Anyone have any ideas about this?

> Are we dropping Cygwin support? If that is the case, regex support in
> native Win32 would be a must, since otherwise bbackupd.exe is not
> usable...

As far as I know, there was no explicit intention to drop Cygwin
support, but I guess nobody has tested it since we autoconfiscated Box.

Cheers, Chris.
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