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Re: PCP Build for Alpha

To: Eric Roman <eroman@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: PCP Build for Alpha
From: Mark Goodwin <markgw@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 10:03:52 +1100 (EST)
Cc: Mark Goodwin <markgw@xxxxxxx>, pcp@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <20000314134944.A2100@ftg3.lbl.gov>
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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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