[Box Backup] Compiling boxbackup chris-merge on debian etch?

Tobias Balle-Petersen boxbackup at fluffy.co.uk
Sat Jul 7 15:05:25 BST 2007


Hello Chris.

Here are the results:
# svn update
U    lib/server/Daemon.cpp
Updated to revision 1725.

# cd bin/bbstored

# make

# cd ../../debug/test/bbackupd

# ../../bin/bbstored/bbstored -DVT testfiles/bbstored.conf
16:05:23 Starting daemon, version chris_merge_1719, config: testfiles/bbstored.conf


So, it starts up doing this??


Tobias


Chris Wilson wrote:
> Hi Tobias and all,
> 
> On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, Tobias Balle-Petersen wrote:
> 
>> 14:41:03 getopt: returned '?'
>> 14:41:03 getopt: optind = 2
>> 14:41:03 getopt: optopt = 0
>> 14:41:03 getopt: optarg =
>> 14:41:03 getopt: argv[optind] =
>> /home/box/merge/debug/test/bbackupd/testfiles/bbstored.conf
>> 14:41:03 Unknown error in getopt: returned '?'
> 
> When is a question mark not a question mark? Does anyone know why the
> case '?' could be ignored (skipped over) in this case, to hit the select
> statement's default clause?
> 
> Tobias, please could you try the following:
> 
> Don't delete anything or run any other commands :-)
> 
> cd merge
> svn update
> cd bin/bbstored
> make
> cd ../../debug/test/bbackupd
> ../../bin/bbstored/bbstored -DVT testfiles/bbstored.conf
> 
> and send me the output?
> 
> This probably won't fix it, but the output should help to understand
> what on earth is going on here.
> 
> Cheers, Chris.




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