June 2008 - crux-devel - lists.crux.nu

Casual developer IRC meeting
by Johannes Winkelmann 19 Jun '08

19 Jun '08

Hi there, I'd like to suggest casual IRC meeting of us developers, with no fixed agenda and no need to give notice whether you can attend or not. The main goal would be to get things done quickly which would normally take a lot of time to coordinate in mail, for example the "Public Wiki" -> "Wiki" transformation, or discussion on bug reports and taking necessary actions. It's by no means a replacement for the existing meetings, but could help to make us more efficient at getting things done, and could hopefully allow those that aren't frequently on IRC join for the important bits. We'd probably hold it at 20:00 CEST as the regular meetings. I've created a poll where you can write down days that you generally could participate on, plus a "Bad idea" option if you dislike it. Please only vote if you're a dev, those will get remove anyway. If you want to comment (no matter whether you're a dev or not :-)) please feel free to follow up to the mail. Poll here: http://doodle.ch/participation.html?pollId=rturdcmvq86s5s6w Thanks for reading. Johannes -- Johannes Winkelmann mailto:jw@smts.ch Zurich, Switzerland http://jw.smts.ch

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Precompiled headers and distributed compilation
by Johannes Winkelmann 19 Jun '08

19 Jun '08

Hi there, My qt4 port triggered an error [1] when using distcc to build it. After some investigation, I realized that Qt4 by default uses precompiled headers [2], which break when the compilation is done on a different machine since the precompiled headers are not transfered automatically. Currently, this means that any package using PCH will break when trying to compile it with distcc. There are a couple of ways to address that: 1. let it break on distcc machines, since we expect users of distcc to understand the problem 2. force the packages to not use PCH at all (= longer compile times for non distributed builds) 3. make the Pkgfiles aware that they're build with distcc, so they can react (might need a more generic solution than just distcc, since other tools doing the same would suffer from the same problem) 4. make the port aware (i.e. using a ".pch" file) that it will break, and make the distcc code in pkgmk.conf smart enough to not select distcc if it's there I think #4 would be the cleanest solution, however #3 would be faster if a user has a compile farm, at the cost of some detection code build() function At this point in time, distcc is not maintained in core/opt, so I'm not sure if there's a general interest to fix that problem; I used to maintain distcc before my "sabbatical leave" so I have a personal interest in it and believe that distcc is quite interesting for a source based distribution, YMMV though :-). If you have other ideas or any preferences, please tell the world :-). Best wishes, Johannes References: 1. http://crux.nu/bugs/index.php?do=details&task_id=275 2. http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Precompiled-Headers.html -- Johannes Winkelmann mailto:jw@smts.ch Zurich, Switzerland http://jw.smts.ch

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prtverify daily results
by crux＠crux.nu 18 Jun '08

18 Jun '08

Differences since last check: (no differences) Full report: http://crux.nu/files/prtverify.log

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Potentially broken source downloads
by crux＠crux.nu 18 Jun '08

18 Jun '08

Port: /home/crux/git-to-rsync-working-copy/crux-2.4/opt/netpbm Url: http://aon.iki.fi/files/netpbm/netpbm-10.35.45.tar.gz Reason: curl: (7) couldn't connect to host State: New Full report: http://crux.nu/files/check_urls.html

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prtverify daily results
by crux＠crux.nu 17 Jun '08

17 Jun '08

Differences since last check: (no differences) Full report: http://crux.nu/files/prtverify.log

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Potentially broken source downloads
by crux＠crux.nu 16 Jun '08

16 Jun '08

Port: /home/crux/git-to-rsync-working-copy/crux-2.4/opt/xaw3d Url: ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/widgets/Xaw3d/R6.3/Xaw3d-1.5.tar.gz Reason: curl: (56) FTP response reading failed State: New Full report: http://crux.nu/files/check_urls.html

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prtverify daily results
by crux＠crux.nu 16 Jun '08

16 Jun '08

Differences since last check: (no differences) Full report: http://crux.nu/files/prtverify.log

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prtverify daily results
by crux＠crux.nu 15 Jun '08

15 Jun '08

Differences since last check: (no differences) Full report: http://crux.nu/files/prtverify.log

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Potentially broken source downloads
by crux＠crux.nu 15 Jun '08

15 Jun '08

Port: /home/crux/git-to-rsync-working-copy/crux-2.4/opt/imagemagick Url: ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/ImageMagick-6.3.9-0.tar.bz2 Reason: curl: (19) Given file does not exist State: Reminder Port: /home/crux/git-to-rsync-working-copy/crux-2.4/opt/ocaml Url: http://caml.inria.fr/pub/distrib/ocaml-3.10/ocaml-3.10.2.tar.bz2 Reason: curl: (7) couldn't connect to host State: New Full report: http://crux.nu/files/check_urls.html

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prtverify daily results
by crux＠crux.nu 14 Jun '08

14 Jun '08

Differences since last check: (no differences) Full report: http://crux.nu/files/prtverify.log

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