[mnet-devel] Mnet build questions.

[rob kinninmont]

On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 08:06:52PM -0400, Zooko wrote:
> 
> > when it should call set_flags. It looks like it's a bug in bsddb3 v  
> > 3.3.0 (which is quite old) but that's the version that  
> > mnet_new/setup.py claims is needed
> 
> Probably a naming confusion between bsddb and pybsddb.  The latter is 
> sometimes referred to as "bsddb", much to everyone's confusion.

I'm only looking at 'pybsddb' (the module named 'bsddb') - I'm not even considering db3 etc at this point.

> I believe it'll tell you that we use bsddb 3.3.11 (filename: 
> "db-3.3.11.tar.gz") and pybsddb 3.3.0 (filename: "bsddb3-3.3.0.tar.gz").  
> I guess the patches that you'll also find in extsrc/ are not necessary for 
> mnet_new.

Aha!  That's the stumbling block.

The mnet_new setup stuff doesn't deal with pybsddb directly, it simply tells one to install v3.3.0.  The twist is that it needs to be a _Patched_ version of 3.3.0, which you won't get if you e.g. install from an rpm.

I'll have a go at installing a patched version on my linux box.  

> Your second problem is something that has been fixed in newer versions of 
> mnet_new.

Hmm.  Do you know off-hand what/where the fix is?  If it's a small fix, I'd probably like to apply it retroactively to my May12 snapshot.

> I think we need to make the HEAD version of mnet_new be a "stabilizing" source 
> base.  Ent, and any other disruptive features or refactorings, should not be 
> merged onto HEAD until they are complete and stable.

I'm not going to argue with the wisdom of that as a coding/engineering practice... but I really don't think it's necessary at the moment.  Much as I'd like to get more involved in mnet stuff, I think I simply don't have the time to devote to it at the moment - too many other things going on - and my goal is really just to get a stable mnet node running on windows and linux that I can tickle via xmlrpc.  To that end, sticking with a stale-but-working snapshot that I can fix ad-hoc as needed probably works better for me.

cheers,
rob


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