Re: [Design] slackware and fsw2.00pre8

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>>>>> "Sam" == Sam Sgro <sam@freeswan.org> writes:

>> I have tested freeswan 2.00pre8 on Slackware 8.0 (vanilla kernel
>> 2.4.20). Same behaviour as
>> http://lists.freeswan.org/pipermail/design/2003-February/004245.html

    Sam> 1) The point DHR makes about Slackware having non-compliant header     Sam> files is still valid:

    Sam> http://lists.freeswan.org/pipermail/design/2003-January/004208.html

    Sam> However, do we want to ship 2.00 with -Wpointer-arith disabled?

  I'm not sure.
  Maybe we need a doc/distro-notes.html.   Is this a kernel compilation issue?

    Sam> Although enabling this during development is good for ensuring we     Sam> have no issues with code, it may cause our users more grief.   

  You have my consent to remove it from linux/net/ipsec/Makefile on the release branch, should an opportunity arise.

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    Sam> 2) Slackware uses a BSD style startup script, instead of the assumed     Sam> System V default. Can we improve our handling of this situation?

  That's a good question.

  By "BSD style", do you mean that it doesn't have run levels, that it has a single /etc/rc script, or that it follows recent BSD innovation of having /etc/rc.d?

  In theory, it is enough to have our script invoked somewhere.   If the slackware people can tell us:

1. how to recognize their system
2. what they want us to do

  We can certainly get something in for 2.01.

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