Re: [Gluster-devel] Fwd: Port GlusterFS as a GSoC 2013 project

[Kaleb S. KEITHLEY]

On 04/26/2013 08:33 AM, John Mark Walker wrote:
> I would personally very much like to see this.
>
> The people who might be able to assist you are Emmanual Dreyfus, CC'd, the 
> NetBSD maintainer, and Kaleb, who has lots of free time on his hands ;)
>
> I jest - I know Kaleb is pretty busy. Hopefully he can spare a few cycles for 
> mentorship.

I'd like to see it done as well. I say go for it. I'd wager that doing 
this will go a long way to making it work on Mac OS X again too.

FWIW, I have looked at this from time to time. It seems that a 
fusefs-kmod pkg for 9.1-release finally materialized a couple weeks ago. 
That has been the major impediment to a port to 9.1 anyway, although a 
port to earlier FreeBSD releases maybe have been possible before now.

Attached is a short patch against master/HEAD that I spent a couple 
hours creating this morning. It should get you off to a good start. I 
left contrib/fuse-util as an exercise. ;-) With my patch, everything 
configured out of the box¹ compiles, except for contrib/fuse-util, which 
I have left as an exercise.

As far as what remains to be done then, my list would be:
1. port contrib/fuse-util.
2. of the pieces that don't currently auto-configure, explore whether 
any of them can or should
3. evaluate whether the changes in my patch are actually correct.
4. write /etc/rc.d/ script
4. package it all
5. submit changes in gerrit and get them through review.
6. put a package or set of packages up for download/distribution on 
ftp.freebsd.org

Regards

--

Kaleb

¹ Here's what I get by default when I run configure:
  GlusterFS configure summary
  ===========================
  FUSE client          : no
  Infiniband verbs     : no
  epoll IO multiplex   : no
  argp-standalone      : yes
  fusermount           : yes
  readline             : yes
  georeplication       : no
  Linux-AIO            : no
  Enable Debug         : no
  systemtap            : yes
  Block Device backend : no

Here's the list of packages I had to install in order to build:
  autoconf-2.69
  autoconf-wrapper-20101119
  automake-1.12.4
  automake-wrapper-20101119
  bison-2.5.1,1
  ca_root_nss-3.14
  curl-7.24.0_1
  cvsps-2.1_1
  expat-2.0.1_2
  flex-2.5.37
  fusefs-kmod-0.3.9.p1.20080208_11
  gettext-0.18.1.1
  git-1.8.0
  libiconv-1.14
  libtool-2.4.2
  libxml2-2.7.8_5
  m4-1.4.16_1,1
  p5-Error-0.17018
  p5-Net-SMTP-SSL-1.01_1
  perl-5.14.2_2
  pkgconf-0.8.9
  python27-2.7.3_3

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