I'm definitely interested. If you can provide a tested diff against
2.7.0 I'll let you check it in to SourceForge CVS. You can get 2.7.0 off
the oss.sgi.com page or from SourceForge's CVS server.
Thanks,
Michael
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 04:11:45PM -0400, Stefan Teleman wrote:
> Hi!
>
> If you are still interested, Jim Hranicky at University of Florida was
> kind enough to make available some online space for my port of
> fam-2.6.9:
>
> ftp://ftp.cise.ufl.edu/incoming
>
> I uploaded the source code package yesterday afternoon.
>
> Happy Holidays,
>
> --Stefan
>
> -----
>
> On Friday 21 November 2003 17:37, Rolf Sponsel wrote:
> > Great to se that FAM is begining to come to life again! :-)
> >
> > A question though - what about the support for Solaris?
> >
> > I recall Stefan Teleman, elected maintainer of KDE for Solaris,
> > having done some stuff to improve FAM on the Solaris plattform.
> >
> > Has this, his work, managed to get into the 2.7.0 release.
> > If not - I think it should (or are you of other opinion Stefan?)
> >
> > Please see email attached below:
> >
> > Kind Regards
> >
> > / Rolf Sponsel
> >
> > Michael Raymond wrote:
> > > ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/download/testing/fam-2.7.0-pre2.ta
> > >r.gz
> > >
> > > I've updated the pre-release of 2.7 to build correctly on
> > > IRIX using the Freeware tools. Please try this out. If there's
> > > no objections I'll push this out as the official release next
> > > week on SourceForge and we can open up CVS for new work.
> > > Thanks,
> > > Michael
> > > --
> > > Michael A. Raymond
> > > Core OS Scheduling Group Real-Time Lead
> >
> > - - - - - - - - A t t a c h m e n t - - - - - - - -
> >
> > Subject: Re: [kde-solaris] KDE & Sun GNOME
> > Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 23:27:25 -0400
> > From: Stefan Teleman <steleman@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Organization: Disorganized
> > To: "For people using KDE on Solaris, with questions
> > about KDE or Solaris" <kde-solaris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> > Rolf Sponsel <Rolf.Sponsel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> >
> >
> > I will gladly make the FAM port sources and a FAM Sun pkg
> > available.
> >
> > It's FAM in filesystem polling mode for now, but it is very fast.
> > The performance improvement compared to KDE filesystem polling is
> > about 3x.
> >
> > I am in the middle of porting it to kernel async callback mode, and
> > i am about half-way through. This has to be done right, otherwise
> > all hell breaks loose. :-)
> >
> > I have been running it on my Sun box (Solaris 8) since early May,
> > and it has not shown any problems at all. My current (development)
> > build of KDE 3.1.2 uses FAM, and the next Solaris release of KDE
> > will definitely use FAM.
> >
> > If someone would be so kind and point me to the right direction as
> > to whom to contact regarding FAM, i would greatly appreciate it! I
> > would be very happy to provide the FAM project with the Sun pkg's
> > and the Solaris port source.
> >
> > --Stefan
> >
> > -----
> >
> > On Tuesday 12 August 2003 17:17, Rolf Sponsel wrote:
> > > Lars Tunkrans wrote:
> > > > [... SNIP ...]
> > > >
> > > > Some of them like FAM and MAD depends on Gcc
> > > > extensions and are also very linux dependent .
> > > > so I have skipped FAM but build MAD with GCC.
> > > >
> > > > Stefan has mentioned that He ported FAM to solaris
> > > > , It would be great to get hold of that
> > > > port !
> > > >
> > > > [... SNIP ...]
> > > >
> > > > //Lars
> > >
> > > I agree, that's great! :-)
> > >
> > > I'd suggest Stefan feeds his work back to the FAM project so that
> > > his efforts become integrated into the next release of the
> > > product (and maybe politely ask for a "quick" patched FAM 2.6.11
> > > release).
> > >
> > > But I'm not quite sure what "has ported FAM to solaris" means?
> > >
> > > Has Stefan patched FAM 2.6.10 with the findings we spotted when
> > > compiling FAM on Solaris (and also have reported back via the FAM
> > > mailing list) or has he (you Stefan) managed to implement a
> > > kernel monitor for Solaris so that it works without having to
> > > poll the file system periodically? That would even be greater!
> > > :-)
>
> --
> Stefan Teleman 'Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition'
> steleman@xxxxxxxxxx -Monty Python
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