[Schemix-devel] Re: Pre-compiled module?

[David Suárez de Lis]

Hi all (I think the first time I wrote this, I lost it, I hate short 
timeouts in web programs), 

Dr William Bland writes: 

> Hello all,
>         I'd be interested to know how many people on the list have tried
> to install Schemix and of those, how many have been successful.  If enough

Tried here, no success so far. 

> people are having problems I may spend some time getting a module compiled
> that people can just download and use it instantly.  If I do this it would
> probably be for either RedHat9 or Gentoo on i586.  Would that help people,
> or are most of you finding it ok?

it would definitely help a lot, red hat 9 in here... (I still have to try on 
my 2.4.9 RH7.3 box at work...) 

>  The only problem I have with doing this
> is that the rate of development of Schemix is such that any pre-compiled
> module would very quickly fall behind what's in CVS (and even faster
> behind what's on my own laptop since I generally wait until things work
> on my laptop before committing them to CVS!)

a possible solution: binaries for people to work with schemix and CVS or a 
diff patch from clean sources (RH9 or from kernel.org) so we can just patch 
the whole thing and try to build it... this way on-the-edge people can still 
try new features while we all have an usable binary to test until we all get 
the 'trick' to build things ourselves... the only problem is that this would 
put more burden on you. 

I haven't been able to successfully build a kernel since RH8 (I keep banging 
silly problems, my last 2.4.9 build, won't load ext3 and thus cannot mount 
/, even when ext3fs is compiled in, not as a module :-/ this is on the 
laptop, the big box has RH9, the kernel won't compile, and I get hundreds of 
warnings, etc... I am starting to think gcc-3.2.2 is not for kernel 
building; I will switch back to 2.95.x and STLport for my C++...) 

> Best wishes,
>                 Bill.

thanks for all,
david