[Libffcall] Fwd: Debug and cleanup projects

[Deepak Sharma]

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Subject: Re: [Libffcall] Debug and cleanup projects
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From: Sandeep K Chaudhary <address@hidden>
Date: Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 12:01 PM
To: Avneet Kaur <address@hidden>, address@hidden

Hi Avneet,

Thanks for the reply ! I am experienced with working big code bases in C. I guess I should have formally introduced myself. Anyway, better late than never so here it goes :

I am a second year masters student in Computer Science at University of Waterloo in Canada. Before joining University of Waterloo, I worked for Cisco Systems and implemented networking features on their OS (written in C) . Before Cisco, I did my undergrads from IIT Guwahati in India. I am currently working improving tolerance against uncorrectable ECC errors in memory in the Linux kernel. This involves reading other's codes (most of the time), and writing patches and modules. 

About libffcall, I have installed it and am now looking at code and some bugs (though I don't have anything concrete yet). I will get back as soon as I do.

About the README file, I believe the installation procedure needs some modification

"        mkdir make

        cd make

        ./configure --cache-file=config.cache "

Since the 'configure' script is in the ffcall root dir, one should give the path to it. Please correct if I am wrong.

Thanks and regards,

Sandeep.

On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 11:19 PM, Avneet Kaur <address@hidden> wrote:

On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 12:11 PM, Sandeep K Chaudhary
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Can someone please reply to me?

Welcome Sandeep !

Keep patience. You will get response definitely.

Good to know that you are showing interest in this project.
Which skills do you have for debugging ? Have you ever made a project
in C ? Show us your code readability by submitting patches for the
bugs. Explore Libffcall source code, compile it, find bugs more and
more.

Happy Hacking !

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together is success."

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Thanks and regards,
Sandeep K Chaudhary.

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From: Deepak Sharma <address@hidden>
Date: Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 12:25 PM
To: Sandeep K Chaudhary <address@hidden>

On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 12:01 PM, Sandeep K Chaudhary
<address@hidden> wrote:
>
> About the README file, I believe the installation procedure needs some
> modification
>
> "        mkdir make
>         cd make
>         ./configure --cache-file=config.cache "

You are right Sandeep, I face same problem to. Apply "./configure
--cache-file=config.cache" outside make folder.

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From: Sandeep K Chaudhary <address@hidden>
Date: Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 12:36 PM
To: Deepak Sharma <address@hidden>

Hi Deepak,

The idea of creating the make directory is that you generate the new (executable and other related files) in this 'make' directory so as to keep files organized. So to meet that purpose, you can run './../configure --cache-file=config.cache' from within the 'make' dir. If you run the make command outside of 'make' dir, there is no use of creating the 'make' dir.

Thanks,
Sandeep.

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Thanks and regards,
Sandeep K Chaudhary.

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