Re: slackware and fsw2.00pre8

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>>>>> "Sam" == Sam Sgro <[email protected]> writes:
    >> I have tested freeswan 2.00pre8 on Slackware 8.0 (vanilla kernel
    >> 2.4.20).  Same behaviour as
    >> http://lists.freeswan.org/pipermail/design/2003-February/004245.html

    Sam> 1) The point DHR makes about Slackware having non-compliant header
    Sam> files is still valid:

    Sam> http://lists.freeswan.org/pipermail/design/2003-January/004208.html

    Sam> However, do we want to ship 2.00 with -Wpointer-arith disabled? 

  I'm not sure.
  Maybe we need a doc/distro-notes.html.
  Is this a kernel compilation issue?

    Sam> Although enabling this during development is good for ensuring we
    Sam> have no issues with code, it may cause our users more grief.
  
  You have my consent to remove it from linux/net/ipsec/Makefile on the
release branch, should an opportunity arise.

    Sam> 2) Slackware uses a BSD style startup script, instead of the assumed
    Sam> System V default. Can we improve our handling of this situation?

  That's a good question.

  By "BSD style", do you mean that it doesn't have run levels, that it
has a single /etc/rc script, or that it follows recent BSD innovation
of having /etc/rc.d?

  In theory, it is enough to have our script invoked somewhere.
  If the slackware people can tell us:
  1) how to recognize their system
  2) what they want us to do

  We can certainly get something in for 2.01.

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