--- Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 02:38:01PM -0500, Jason Faulkner wrote: > > Ooops -- sent first email directly to Martin instead of list. > > > > Martin Knoblauch wrote: > > > Jason, > > > > > > apparently "configure" fails to realize that you are on OpenBSD, > which > > > is not supported currently. The "unknown" part is telling. > > > > > > > > I thought that might be the case. > > > > > In order to support OpenBSD one needs to fix the recognition > process > > > in "configure" and add OpenBSD-specific metrics code to > "libmetrics". > > > > > I'm confused though, according to this page: > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/ganglia/ ganglia runs on all > openbsd > > platforms. I was going on the, apparently false, presumption that > this > > meant the libmetrics code already existed for openbsd. > > not in 3.0.4, but I have a rough version that will be hopefully > merged for > 3.0.5 and that so far compiles and works (not all metrics though) in > the hosts > i have to test: > > OpenBSD 3.7 (i386) > OpenBSD 4.0 (i386 and amd64)) > > > IANAP, but if there's anything I can do to help get this working on > > > OpenBSD, let me know. > > what versions/arch are you interested on?, would you be able to > deploy test > snapshots of ganglia on them? > > Carlo > Carlo,
I see no problem to add OpenBSD support in 3.0.5. Just go on and check it in once you are satisfied with your stuff. Just out of curiosity: how similar are the BSD flavours? We already have NetBSD and FreeBSD support in. Cheers Martin ------------------------------------------------------ Martin Knoblauch email: k n o b i AT knobisoft DOT de www: http://www.knobisoft.de
