[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen on BSD (was: Evergreen Server Question)

[Jason Stephenson]

Quoting Dan Scott <dan at coffeecode.net>:

> On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 16:08 +1000, Joel Harbottle wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> By any chance, does anyone know if it is yet possible to run
>> Evergreen's server side on FreeBSD 7.2?
>
> As far as I know, not yet. We have committed some patches from Dan
> McMahill to OpenSRF improve *BSD compatibility
> (https://bugs.launchpad.net/opensrf/+bug/513372), but I believe that we
> still have some ways to go before we could claim success there. 'Tis a
> consummation devoutly to be wished.
>
> We really need somebody who lives in the *BSD world to run with this,
> because I don't think anyone currently on the development team has much
> *BSD experience. Dan McMahill, are you still out there? I can assure
> anyone wanting to contribute BSD-compatibility patches / install
> documentation / prerequisite-installing Makefiles / virtual images that
> we'll be happy to work with them.

I prefer *BSD over Linux for servers, and that's generally what we try  
to do here at the consortium where I work. We have not tried  
installing Evergreen on FreeBSD since the 1.4 release. Back in those  
days it was a non-starter because there were too many extra tools and  
too much code in Evergreen that either made Linux-only system calls or  
assumed Linux semantics in system calls.

If someone wants to throw $1,000 at me, I'll set up a server at home  
to work on getting Evergreen and associated bits and pieces to work on  
FreeBSD.

Jason


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