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

Ben Summers boxbackup-dev at fluffy.co.uk
Tue Feb 21 18:11:30 GMT 2006


On 21 Feb 2006, at 18:05, Per Thomsen wrote:

> On 2/21/06 9:52 AM, Martin Ebourne wrote:
>> Per Thomsen <pthomsen at reedtz.com> wrote:
>>> There are several instances of pointer conversions that the compiler
>>> will not accept. To get the build working, I simply changed them  
>>> to what
>>> worked. These are mostly related to the 'EV_SET' macro in <sys/ 
>>> event.h>.
>>> It might need to be ifdef'ed, or a macro created for each  
>>> platform, or
>>> something.
>>
>> Casting a pointer to an int is out of the question. We need to find a
>> better solution for these casts, but I don't think now's the time. If
>> you can knock together a short configure.ac patch that skips the
>> kqueue check on netbsd (should be about 3 lines) then we can go with
>> that for now.
> I'll do that, but I think the test failures preclude releasing  
> anything
> for NetBSD in 0.10. There are several test failures, that I can't  
> figure
> out at this point.

If you put that in, what test failures do you get?

Ben






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