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

Tobias Balle-Petersen boxbackup at fluffy.co.uk
Sat Jul 7 20:57:14 BST 2007


Hello Chris.

I'm running Debian on the machine in question. Not OS X.

What was the problem you fixed that allows me to complete the tests now?

I'll run a ./runtest.pl ALL release and post the results.

Tobias

Chris Wilson wrote:
> Hi Tobias,
> 
> Wee, that was a bit long :-)
> 
> I'm not sure, but I have a sneaking feeling that I've seen this problem
> on Darwin (and therefore OSX) before, and that it relates to delayed
> deletion of files, which makes it a race condition and hard to pin down.
> 
> I'd advise you not to run a mission-critical box backup server on this
> OSX box. However, I don't believe that this has changed since 0.10, so
> if you are already running servers on OSX then I don't see any
> particular reason not to upgrade them to this new version.
> 
> Apart from that, all tests are fine in debug mode. Could you rerun in
> release mode please?
> 
>     ./runtest ALL release
> 
> Cheers, Chris.




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