[Box Backup-dev] RC 3 testing: NetBSD 3.0 fails

[Per Thomsen]

On 2/20/06 1:04 PM, Martin Ebourne wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 12:01 -0800, Per Thomsen wrote:
>   
>> When running configure on NetBSD, I get the following error:
>>
>> configure: error: cannot work out how to discover mount points on your
>> platform
>>
>> I've narrowed it down to the fact that NetBSD doesn't use the 'statfs'
>> struct, but rather 'statvfs'. I am not an autoconf hacker, so I don't
>> know how to make that addition, but if I hack the configure script to
>> use the 'statvfs' struct in its test program, the configure completes
>> (of course it doesn't work beyond completing the script; I can't make
>> anything).
>>     
>
> Chris has already tried Box on NetBSD and found some significant issues
> which means it is non-trivial to make work - really it needs porting to
> NetBSD. I can only assume Box was not ported to NetBSD before.
>
> I'm happy to help where I can with this (certainly the autoconf stuff is
> no trouble) but this really looks like a 0.11 task, not 0.10.
>   
No problem. I might spend a little time trying to get things working for
0.11.

Thanks,
Per

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