[Fwd: [Bug 817] New: DMX includes <linux/input.h> on non-Linuxplatforms]

[Daniel Stone]

On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 11:15:03PM +0200, Roland Mainz wrote:
> Egbert Eich wrote:
> >  > Thanks for the report.  The DMX code was written using Linux and was
> >  > ported to SGIs, but it has not yet been ported to other OSs.  I'm
> >  > hopeful that it will be a relatively easy job to do that for Solaris,
> >  > HPUX, etc.  Perhaps a general solution would be to disable building DMX
> >  > on those platforms that have not yet been tested/ported.  What do you
> >  > think?  The downside, of course, is that it doesn't receive the testing
> >  > on those OSs but avoids the short-term compilation problems.
> > 
> > We will always run into those problems and there is not much what
> > can be done about it. We can only ask developers to use as much
> > discretion as possible but it is not possible to completely rule
> > out that other OSes break.
> > Having tinderboxes will help developers to identify such problems in
> > a timely manner and allow them to fix them - in some cases with the
> > help of the OS maintainer.
> 
> Unfortunately there are no Solaris/SPARC and Solaris/x86 tinderbox
> machines yet...
> 
> Alan:
> Is it possible to hookup an old SPARC (e.g. Ultra5/333MHz etc.) for that
> job ?

I have a Ultra5 kicking around at home, but sadly, I have no bandwidth
whatsoever at home (dialup, with a 192.168.x.x IP). Otherwise I'd
update it from baseline Solaris 8 and be doing X builds on it.

-- 
Daniel Stone                                            <daniel at freedesktop.org>
freedesktop.org: powering your desktop                http://www.freedesktop.org
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