Re: question about configure warning

2009-01-12 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Michael S. Fischer mich...@dynamine.net writes: What are these non-Linux-specific issues to which the document refers? The lack of a completion indicator + various implementation bugs. The only OS I know of that has a usable implementation is FreeBSD 8. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav -

question about configure warning

2009-01-06 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
Hi all I'm setting up an amd64 box (that is intel xeon x86_64) with ubuntu 8.04 and varnish 2.0.2, and configure gives me a warning about sendfile configure: WARNING: won't look for sendfile() on x86_64-unknown- linux-gnu Does this mean it won't be using sendfile() on this system? roy --

Re: question about configure warning

2009-01-06 Thread Marcus Smith
Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: Does this mean it won't be using sendfile() on this system? If I recall correctly, it won't be using sendfile() on *almost all* systems (except certain versions of BSD?). From the porting pages: The build system will automatically detect the availability of epoll()

Re: question about configure warning

2009-01-06 Thread Michael S. Fischer
On Jan 6, 2009, at 7:42 AM, Marcus Smith wrote: The build system will automatically detect the availability of epoll() and build the corresponding cache_acceptor. It will also automatically detect the availability of sendfile(), though its use is discouraged (and disabled by default) due to