Re: [e-users] Building efsd from CVS

[Lee S. C. <so...@te...>]

Christian and Till,

Alright... I backed off a little.  Installed RedHat 6.1 with X, graphics 
manip, software dev, and kernel dev.  I documented everything from the 
first attempt and installed as many deps as I could, including FAM as an 
RPM.  Then I followed the prescribed order of appearance suggested @ 
e.org.  No compilation problems whatsoever.  E. is running beautifully 
and FAM and efsd appear to be working as well as could be expected.

I would suggest that the problems I encountered were related to 
dependencies more so than anything else.  My initial installation of 
RedHat 6.0 included only X and kernel dev.  I suppose this translated 
into missing headers etc.  Like I said before I am not a developer and 
Linux, as an ecosystem, is still very foreign - what the hell is a 
header?  I have no idea.  I have a lot of reading to do... my only 
salvation is enough intuition to interpret error codes in a meaningful 
way and feed them to google.

So, would it be worthwhile publishing my experience and some shots to a 
web page?  


Thanks for the responses, and in the future I will refrain from posting 
to the lists whilst under the influence of frustration and caffeine.



solis

ps. Till - This philosophy, these ideas, that it cannot be finite, 
therefore never finished is genius.  I won't ask again :-)
 



Christian Kreibich wrote:

>"Lee S. Clark" wrote:
>
>>Christian,
>>
>>I finally got the thing compiled, although it was an embarrassing hack.
>>
>
>Great, but what was the cause of the problem?
>
>> Nevertheless, E. is running but efsd has issues.  I think my problem is
>>with FAM/Imon.  The documentation is sparse, but I assume that I patch
>>
>
>Could you be a bit more specific? What issues?
>
>>the kernel with Imon, recompile, then build FAM. I would prefer to use
>>
>
>That's correct, the problem here is that imon isn't available for all
>linux versions, so for the future dnotify will be the way to go I guess.
>
>>the dnotify patch, but again I am clueless in that regard.  Is there a
>>
>
>Iirc, the next release of FAM will include support for dnotify. RedHat's
>rpms of FAM should be the dnotify version anyway.
>
>>good document that addresses FAM/Imon/dnotify?  I read SGI's dox as well
>>as the hiddenrock how-to but neither lend themselves to clear understanding.
>>
>
>What is it that you don't understand? You really don't mention any
>details :)
> 
>
>>done a splendid job and I am looking forward to an official release (any
>>idea how long we are left waiting?).
>>
>
>Hehehe. No way :)
> 
>Cheers,
>Christian.
>