[avahi] Patch for gentoo compilation

[Sebastien Estienne]

2005/6/30, Lennart Poettering <mzzhgg at 0pointer.de>:
> On Thu, 30.06.05 06:03, Steev (steev at steev.net) wrote:
> 
> > I am attaching the patch again (it applies cleanly against r154 as well
> > as 153, until it gets committed to svn, its required to install create
> > the proper init script as well as tell it where it should properly be.
> > I am also attaching the new ebuild that I have, I used it to install,
> > and aside from starting (takes too long to get a response) the only
> > other issue I have is, it *appears* that /var/lib/run/avahi is hardcoded
> > in /usr/bin/avahi (i ran strings /usr/bin/avahi | grep run) and on
> > gentoo we don't use /var/lib/run, we use /var/run - not sure where to
> > change this.  Although since I am just testing it out to make sure it
> > works, I created /var/lib/run/avahi for it.
> 
> Have a look on the top of avahi-daemon/Makefile.am:
> 
> AM_CFLAGS= \
> [...]
>         -DAVAHI_RUNTIME_DIR=\"$(localstatedir)/run/avahi\"
> 
> avahi puts its PID and socket files in AVAHI_RUNTIME_DIR. Ths should
> be the place to fix this. However, our  autoconf guru, Sebastien,
> might code up some neat autodetection routines for the right path for
> the runtime directory. (And by while doing so moving the definition of
> this path to configure.ac. What do you think, Sebastien?

No problem.

> 
> Same thing in avahi-dnsconfd/Makefile.am. AVAHI_SOCKET is the socket
> of avahi-daemon to connect to. AVAHI_RUNTIME_SCRIPT is the path where
> to put the PID file. Since avahi-dns-confd puts its PID file directly
> to /var/run/ (instead of /var/run/avahi/) this should be cleaned up a
> little anyway.
> 
> > >> all this is good
> > >
> > >> does avahi-discover works?
> >
> > avahi-discover "works" although, I don't get anything in my list at all.
> >     I do have sshd running.
> >
> 
> Yeah, you need to register a service on a some host on your network to
> have avahi-discover show it up.
> 
> BTW: Sebastien, why did you ask this question? Doesn't it work on your
> machine? Please post a bug report in that case!
No no, everything works for me. I was asking this to check if
avahi-discover found his .glade file.

> 
> > As I apparently cannot currently start avahi from the init script (oh,
> > did I mention I am on dialup....) due to it taking too long to get a
> > response, this is the output of me running avahi from the
> > commandline.
> 
> Too long to get a response? To which query?
> 
> >
> > mebius ~ # avahi
> > Found user 'avahi' (UID 409) and group 'avahi' (GID 409).
> > Successfully dropped root privileges.
> > Enumeration complete
> > Server startup complete.  Host name is <mebius.local.>
> > iface.c: avahi_server_add_service() failed.
> 
> Hmm, seems you tried to register some kind of conflicting service record?
> 
> Lennart
> 
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Sebastien Estienne