Re: Corosync on NetBSD

[Adam Hoka <adam.hoka%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 09:14:01 +0200
Stephan Wiebusch <stephanwib%googlemail.com@localhost> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I tried to make the Corosync 1.2.8 cluster software work on NetBSD 5.0.2.
> There were some issues to fix in the source and make files. One can compile
> and run it then. Unfortunately it doesn_t do anything except eating 100%
> CPU. I sent a list with the build issues to the Corosync mailing list, as
> there were:
> 
> 
> 
> => lib/coroipcc.c
> -There are some "#ifdef COROSYNC_BSD" statements which include some
> madvise() calls. There is a MADV_NOSYNC flag being used which is only
> available on FreeBSD. I commented these lines out.
> -There is a "semun" union requiered which is not defined in "sys/sem.h" on
> NetBSD, in contrast to FreeBSD. I had to add it to this file:
> 
>         union semun {
>                 int     val;            /* value for SETVAL */
>                 struct  semid_ds *buf;  /* buffer for IPC_STAT & IPC_SET */
>                 u_short *array;         /* array for GETALL & SETALL */
>         };
> 
> =>exec/totemip.c
> -There is an #include for <net/if_var.h>. This file is not present on
> NetBSD, so I just dropped that.
> 
> =>exec/logsys.c
> -The same problem with madvise() and MADV_NOSYNC.

Are you sure, that the code will do the same after that?

> =>exec/coroipcs.c
> -Once more the madvise() issue.
> -And once more a missing semun union.
> 
> =>include/corosync/totem/
> totemip.h
> -The compiler complained about uint16_t here (line 81). Adding an #include
> for <sys/types.h> made this work.

uint16_t should be included with <stdint.h>

> =>lib/Makefile and exec/Makefile
> -Both files contain "$(CP) -a" statements which should only work with GNU cp
> AFAIK. As a first attempt I changed that to "-p".
> 
> =>Build environment:
> -One needs to install GNU make und GNU groff, e.g. from pkgsrc (as I did).
> GNU groff 1.19.2 is also available on NetBSD, but that fails.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Has anybody else tried this yet?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Stephan


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