Windows FAIL.
It has been suggested the current thing I’m trying to fix is actually a bug in the Microsoft linker…. and I’m quite willing to believe that.
I wonder if I can expense rehab if this Windows port leads to a drinking problem….
You will need:
Then, get and build it:
Now you can go and have much whisky as this will take a few minutes. You should now have a set of built binaries for MySQL Cluster on Windows. Scary.
yeah, one about internet in new apartment. really feeling that at the moment… except it’s a house, not apartment.
Bought an Unwired prepaid thing today… just to tide me over for the 5-7 working days (at least) before they (being Telstra) actually get my phone line working (and then DSL can get connected).
gah, gah gah.
“MySQL Cluster 6.4 Windows tree†branch in Launchpad
(which really should have the -fail suffix… but anyway)
In what will (soon) be mirrored to launchpad, all but 17 targets (yeah, working on that… but it’s out of 130 or something) build.
Not only that, I’ve used the management client (ndb_mgm.exe) to monitor the cluster running my Bugzilla instance (which is now a rather old 6.3 build).
Getting closer to NDB on Windows.
Be afraid. Be very, very afraid.
“MySQL Cluster 6.4 Windows tree†branch in Launchpad
That’s right folks, I’m pushing up patches for MySQL Cluster on Windows. This tree is incomplete, and no promises on when enough will be pushed for it to even compile on Windows.
Tree is updated when launchpad pulls from our internal tree.
Jut got a phone call letting me know that settlement has all gone through. I now own[1] a house.
[1] where “own” is really “owe a lot of money on”
I’m really excited about this… it may cure my addiction/hatred of Evolution (at least for task management).
<sarcasm>Because I had nothing else on this month.</sarcasm> I’m currently reviewing linux.conf.au papers. This is fun, brutal and hard.
For those of you who submitted: never be disheartened by not having it accepted: there are so many good papers for linux.conf.au we could probably hold two conferences and they’d both be excellent.
We do, however, only have one conference – so good papers get left out.
P.S. since I just bought a house the only forms of bribes currently being accepted are large contributions towards my mortgage.
P.P.S. smaller contributions probably accepted too.
P.P.P.S. I’m not the only reviewer you need to bribe… but if you’ve got a spare few hundred thousand dollars, you probably have enough to bribe enough.
If you read about the iTunes Music store in the US, you’ll find out that tracks are 99c USD each. This is about 1.14AUD.
If you read about the iTunes Music Store in Australia, you’ll find out that tracks here are $1.69AUD.
So why do we get a 50% markup simply for living in Australia?
Oh, and the telstra store is the same price (1.69).
Thanks to Glynn for pointing me to the right thread on opensolaris.org (in a comment on my Good adventures with OpenSolaris post). The package verification thingy (pkg verify -v -f SUNWfirefox) did actually throw an error (indicating some sort of problem). So that’s pretty neat. The fact that it got into trouble in the first place isn’t good, but corruption detection is the next best thing.
I still occationally hit the bug in VirtualBox where if you have 127.0.0.1 in your resolv.conf on your host (e.g. running a local caching nameserver), VirtualBox passes this through to the guest, so the guest tries to use the guest 127.0.0.1 as a nameserver – this usually doesn’t work so well.
The good news is, Firefox now works in my OpenSolaris VM.
The bad news is that even though I’ve gone and set my keyboard layout as DVORAK (with the Input Method Switcher applet), whath should be ctrl-l (for location bar) in Firefox, actually brings up the Print dialog (on DVORAK, L is where P is on QWERTY).
But, I’ve managed to download bazaar now, and the install was simple (just follow INSTALL in the bzr tarball). At some point I’ll badger someone to make an OpenSolaris package for it so you could do “pkg install bzr”, but you can’t do that yet.
The next challenge will be to branch repositories from the host onto a temp drive, build and test.
First of all, thanks to everyone who commented on my previous OpenSolaris entry (which wasn’t really positive at all).
I recently tried again – this time starting with an ISO of build 93. I’d recommend completely ignoring the 2008.05 release and going straight for the build 93 image.
Installed easily in VirtualBox, adding the VirtualBox extensions was easy. Select “Devices -> Install Guest Additions” in the VirtualBox menu, then when logged into the OpenSolaris install, do the following:
su
pkgadd -d /media/VBOXADDITIONS_1.6.0_30421/VBoxSolarisAdditions.pkg
(you then say yes, i really do want to install it. rather obvious. I had to do this step again after the “pkg image-update” below though). Just logging out and then back in again gets you all the awesomeness you’d expect from running other guests (such as that system released by a large corporation in Redmond).
The “pkg image-update” went as expected, and I’m now running build 94.
I installed SunStudio Express (compilers) pretty easily – “pkg install sunstudio”. Unfortunately, this is all in /opt/SunStudioExpress and not in $PATH, which would have been much more useful. I guess there’s still a bit to go before usability nirvana. Also, no .desktop entries, so have to explicitly run /opt/SunStudioExpress/bin/sunstudio to get the NetBeans gui. Presumably if i add /opt/SunStudioExpress/bin to PATH, building random software packages will be nicer.
So, I then want bzr so i can pull source repositories. Monty Taylor informs me that the magic packages you want are: SUNWgcc, gcc-dv and SUNWtoo. Then you can build bzr as downloaded from the website. Installed these easily.
However, now trying to get the bzr source:
$ firefox
ld.so.1: firefox-bin: fatal: /usr/lib/firefox/libxul.so: corrupt or truncated file
and then symbol kPStaticModules: referenced symbol not found.
So maybe I shouldn’t have upgraded to build 94…..
But certainly in much better shape than the may release, but be warned, it’s still a work-in-progress and some things may sporadically not work from time to time (e.g. like firefox and now).
Hopefully, some time soon I’ll get a MySQL build (well… really I want MySQL Cluster, and later drizzle) going and will really be able to hammer these things with dtrace.
Paul notices the “non-dairy Creamer” thing that the US seems to have some kind of if not love affair, hidden addiction to. What’s almost worse than the non-dairy creamer actually containing dairy is that in my experience, sometimes airlines (and others) believe this is somehow Vegan.