next compilation woes

[Brian Behlendorf <br...@organic.com>]

On Wed, 12 Jun 1996, Rob Hartill wrote:
> > I forwarded the NeXT patch to this gentleman and he got another error...
> > does anyone on this list have access to a NeXT box?
> 
> I do.
> 
> what do you need?. I'll try to compile apache but don't want to get 
> into trying to fire it up.... last time I did that I took the machine
> out with a runaway error_log   :-)

Well, we at least need to make sure it compiles and respond to requests -
if it can get that far it's likely that most portability issues are
resolved. 

Yet another reason why autoconf would help....

	Brian

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Re: next compilation woes

[Brian Behlendorf <br...@organic.com>]

On Wed, 12 Jun 1996, Tom Tromey wrote:
> Brian> Well, we at least need to make sure it compiles and respond to
> Brian> requests - if it can get that far it's likely that most
> Brian> portability issues are resolved.
> 
> Brian> Yet another reason why autoconf would help....
> 
> Here's a teaser for you: in our current version, we have a minimal
> test suite for Apache that runs under DejaGNU.  Adding new tests is
> very easy.
> 
> If our NeXT was up, I could build and test it very, very easily...
> 
> We'll make the test code available soon (whenever our release really
> happens).

This will be sooo cool when it works.

By the way, folks, when it finally looks like we've committed everything
on our 1.1 plate, can we coordinate a plan to attempt to compile *all* the
distributed modules and make sure there are no compilation problems?  A
formal test suite will have to wait, but I think we could really use that
as a smoke test.  I only want us to guarantee functionality on those
platforms which we know it compiles cleanly under.  I volunteer BSDI 2.0,
Solaris 2.5 (gcc and cc), and Irix 5.3 (cc).  In fact, let's make this a
little more formal

http://hyperreal.com/httpd/ports.html

These are all platforms mentioned in Configuration.tmpl...

	Brian


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Re: next compilation woes

[Tom Tromey <tr...@cygnus.com>]

Brian> Well, we at least need to make sure it compiles and respond to
Brian> requests - if it can get that far it's likely that most
Brian> portability issues are resolved.

Brian> Yet another reason why autoconf would help....

Here's a teaser for you: in our current version, we have a minimal
test suite for Apache that runs under DejaGNU.  Adding new tests is
very easy.

If our NeXT was up, I could build and test it very, very easily...

We'll make the test code available soon (whenever our release really
happens).

Tom