[rrd-developers] rrdtool 1.3 cairo switch is done

[Dylan Vanderhoof]

I'm not very familiar with autoconf, but I'll see if I can figure out
what is causing my build to fail on 2.4 with --disable-mmap and submit a
patch.

-D

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tobias Oetiker [mailto:tobi at oetiker.ch]
> Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 10:50 PM
> To: Dylan Vanderhoof
> Cc: rrd-developers at lists.oetiker.ch
> Subject: Re: [rrd-developers] rrdtool 1.3 cairo switch is done
> 
> Hi Dylan,
> 
> --disable-mmap should work, or rather should happen automatically
> if the os does not support mmap (linux 2.4 does support mmap
> though). The same is true for madvis and posix_fadvise ...
> 
> the *advise family of functions has seen some dramatic improvements
> in the 2.6 kernel series ... so there is bound to be limited
> functionality in 2.4 ...
> 
> I have not 2.4 around anymore, but if you do and want to produce
> some patches to help rrdtool work better on 2.4 this would be cool.
> 
> maybe bernhard has some thoughts on this too.
> 
> cheers
> tobi
> 
> 
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