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

[Dan Scott]

On 22 July 2010 09:19, Jason Stephenson <jstephenson at mvlc.org> wrote:
> 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.

Heh. FreeBSD runs nicely in a virtual image; that's where I was doing
my preliminary experiments about a year ago. You'll get no cash from
me :)