Re: ups on FreeBSD 8.X

On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 10:48:39 +1000 Callum Gibson <[email protected]>  wrote:
> Hi all (anyone left on ups-users),
> 
> I recently upgraded my workstation to FreeBSD 8.1 and it looks like there
> are some issues with ups. I had it working nicely with 7.X.
> 
> Firstly, I had the "UAREA desupported by OS" problem, which I fixed by
> using code out of procstat(8). However, the reason that was triggered at
> all was due to SIGSEGV and SIGBUS being received by the debugged app
> (which runs run under gdb or non-debug).
> 
> I think the issue could be that gcc changed version from 3.4.X to 4.2.1
> at some point. If that's so, perhaps the problem also exists on newer
> linux boxes. Does anyone have ups working with gcc 4, or anyone (Bakul?)
> experimented on FreeBSD 8 (/i386 only at this stage)?

I think I had it at least limping along  on an x86 FreeBSD
box after some patching.  Unfortunately that machine is down
at the moment and I don't recall if it was before or after I
upgraded it to 8.0. I will see if I can find some time this
Sunday to get it running.

May be you can see if ups works with programs compiled with
gcc34 (from ports)? ktrace may also help in narrowing things
down a bit.

I have to use Linux @ work so I am interested in the linux
port as well.  Does it work for 64 bit targets or only 32 bit
ones?

Has anyone used ups with a remote (non-x86) target?