Re: First steps towards importing gvirstor into -current

Pieter de Goeje wrote:
> Hi, I tried the beta3a version from the wiki on an amd64 -CURRENT machine.
> I made some changes (attached) to g_virstor.c and geom_virstor.c to let them 
> compile cleanly on AMD64. Both files contained instances of some printf 
> variant with format "%u" while the parameter was a size_t, so I changed the 
> format to "%zu".
> 
> Also, I needed to add -fPIC to the gcc command line to build geom_virstor.so. 
> For some reason, it wasnt able to find "path.h" so I included that one in the 
> search path.

Yes, I forgot to mention this - no testing was done on anything but i386.

Thanks for the patches!

> After successfully building gvirstor (and loading it), I tried to use it:
> # ./gvirstor label -s 10000 test /dev/ad0s3b
> Assertion failed: (G_OPT_TYPE(opt) != 0), function parse_arguments, 
> file /usr/src/sbin/geom/core/geom.c, line 272.
> Abort (core dumped)
> 
> Basically I'm stuck here.

Interesting. It seems that the geom main() couldn't parse command line
arguments. I don't know what to make of it.

> Regards,
> Pieter de Goeje
> 
> PS.
> How do I download the latest sources from the p4 repository?
> 

They are the same as in the tarball. I don't really know if you can
access p4 by an anonymous account.