Hi all,

I've been working towards splitting LWP, RVM, and RPC2 from the main Coda sourcetree. There are some reasons for doing this,

• They are generally not updated very frequently. No need to download them over and over again. It should also reduces build time and CVS update times for the main tree.
• We already maintained them separately as other groups are using the same libraries in different projects. But sometimes changes in the Coda tree broke the stand-alone packages. There was a growing dependency between parts of Coda and these `stand-alone' libraries (they needed things like coda_assert etc.)
• More flexible build environment, using the automake/autoconf/libtool toolchain allows for more portability, building them as shared libraries (and even cross compile DLLs).
• As these libraries are used by multiple applications it should reduces the memory footprint and overall size of the binary packages.
• Their API's are relatively stable, so when implementation bugs are fixed, it is possible to install only the fixed library without having to upgrade all Coda clients and servers as well.

The first one that is out there is LWP. The source is available from ftp.coda:/pub/coda/src/lwp-1.0.tar.gz

There is also a cvs module named `lwp', after doing a checkout simply run the bootstrap.sh script which sets everything up. This should work with automake-1.3, autoconf-2.13 and libtool-1.2b, although the cross compilation has only been tested with am-1.4 and libtool-1.3.3. These are not required for the source in the tarball.

It has been tested to build correctly on FreeBSD-2.2.5/3.1, NetBSD-1.3, Linux-2.2, Linux-2.3, and cross-compiling them using djgpp and cygwin. So it could compile out of the box on other platforms. There are no package description files for the freebsd ports or netbsd pkgsrc trees.

As the include path for the lwp header files is changed from <lwp.h> to <lwp/lwp.h> there is a moderately intrusive patch against Coda that will be committed once everything has been double checked for possible compilation and runtime problems.

Jan Received on 1999-12-04 21:24:02