On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Eric Roman wrote:
> > > I've built a binary RPM for PCP 2.1.4 on Red Hat/Alpha/6.0. I haven't
> > > given
> > > it a full testing yet, but it seems ok, (pmstat, pmval work as expected).
> >
> > So the "delayed reporting" problem with pmstat et al has now gone away?
> > (if so it must have been stdout buffering - I added a change to these
> > tools to force stdout to be line buffered).
>
> I don't think this bug was in the line buffering. It went away when I
> futzed around w/ the sginap macro (CLK_TCK was assumed at 100, it's 1000
> on Alpha.). I think you fixed that in PCP 2.1.4-2
Ah yes, I forgot about that fix. The line buffering doesn't hurt anyway ;-)
>
> > > Any interest?
> >
> > I am interested from the portability perspective, but you are the only
> > PCP on Linux-Alpha user that I know of.
>
> Ok. I thought you might be interested in putting a binary on the web
> page.
Actually, I'd rather put a pointer from the PCP home page to the
Alpha-Linux RPM, if you could volunteer to be it's official builder?
Can you also possibly host the binary somewhere? We have the same
requirement with the PPC-Linux binary RPM.
thanks
-- Mark
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