On Tuesday 12 February 2008 7:09:49 pm Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 19:02 -0500, Andres Mejia wrote: > > There's this issue where mediatomb fails to build on the powerpc. The bug > > is http://bugs.debian.org/465177. Does anyone here know if inotify is > > supported on the powerpc? > > It is. > > > Also, does anyone know what kernel version the powerpc buildd machines > > are using? > > Possibly an oldish one, but it shouldn't matter. Whether the kernel > supports inotify should be checked at runtime, not build time.
Well, this makes sense. I could fix this for the build time. Does mediatomb already check for inotify during runtime? As far as fixing this for build time, I'm guessing the inotify-tools has this check only to serve the purpose of seeing if the linux inotify headers work, and if not, just drop back to it's own implementation. For mediatomb, we should just be worried about the presence and usability of sys/inotify.h. If it turns out there's a problem with the inotify headers, then it should be reported against the linux packages. -- Regards, Andres
