[Gluster-devel] Fwd: Port GlusterFS as a GSoC 2013 project

[Outback Dingo]

On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Kaleb S. KEITHLEY <kkeithle at redhat.com>wrote:

> On 04/26/2013 08:33 AM, John Mark Walker wrote:
>
>> I would personally very much like to see this.
>>
>> The people who might be able to assist you are Emmanual Dreyfus, CC'd,
>> the NetBSD maintainer, and Kaleb, who has lots of free time on his hands ;)
>>
>> I jest - I know Kaleb is pretty busy. Hopefully he can spare a few cycles
>> for mentorship.
>>
>>
> I'd like to see it done as well. I say go for it. I'd wager that doing
> this will go a long way to making it work on Mac OS X again too.
>
> FWIW, I have looked at this from time to time. It seems that a fusefs-kmod
> pkg for 9.1-release finally materialized a couple weeks ago. That has been
> the major impediment to a port to 9.1 anyway, although a port to earlier
> FreeBSD releases maybe have been possible before now.
>
> Attached is a short patch against master/HEAD that I spent a couple hours
> creating this morning. It should get you off to a good start. I left
> contrib/fuse-util as an exercise. ;-) With my patch, everything configured
> out of the box¹ compiles, except for contrib/fuse-util, which I have left
> as an exercise.
>
> As far as what remains to be done then, my list would be:
> 1. port contrib/fuse-util.
> 2. of the pieces that don't currently auto-configure, explore whether any
> of them can or should
> 3. evaluate whether the changes in my patch are actually correct.
> 4. write /etc/rc.d/ script
> 4. package it all
> 5. submit changes in gerrit and get them through review.
> 6. put a package or set of packages up for download/distribution on
> ftp.freebsd.org
>
> Regards
>
> --
>
> Kaleb
>
> ¹ Here's what I get by default when I run configure:
>   GlusterFS configure summary
>   ===========================
>   FUSE client          : no
>   Infiniband verbs     : no
>   epoll IO multiplex   : no
>   argp-standalone      : yes
>   fusermount           : yes
>   readline             : yes
>   georeplication       : no
>   Linux-AIO            : no
>   Enable Debug         : no
>   systemtap            : yes
>   Block Device backend : no
>
> Here's the list of packages I had to install in order to build:
>   autoconf-2.69
>   autoconf-wrapper-20101119
>   automake-1.12.4
>   automake-wrapper-20101119
>   bison-2.5.1,1
>   ca_root_nss-3.14
>   curl-7.24.0_1
>   cvsps-2.1_1
>   expat-2.0.1_2
>   flex-2.5.37
>   fusefs-kmod-0.3.9.p1.20080208_**11
>   gettext-0.18.1.1
>   git-1.8.0
>   libiconv-1.14
>   libtool-2.4.2
>   libxml2-2.7.8_5
>   m4-1.4.16_1,1
>   p5-Error-0.17018
>   p5-Net-SMTP-SSL-1.01_1
>   perl-5.14.2_2
>   pkgconf-0.8.9
>   python27-2.7.3_3
>
>

curious as to what version of glusterfs you built with this patch on
10-CURRENT because it doesnt build on my system

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