Posts for April 2015

2015-04-26: C TAP Harness 3.3

The primary purpose of this release is to merge work by D. Brashear on making it easier to show verbose test success and failure output. Now, if runtests is run with the -v option, or the C_TAP_VERBOSE environment variable is set, the full output of each test case will be printed. The output is currently pretty messy, and I hope to improve it in the future, but it's a start.

This release also supports compilation with Clang with all warnings enabled, and resolves all warnings shown by -Weverything (except the ones about padding, because that's not actually a useful warning). It includes new machinery to detect the compiler and switch warning flags. I will hopefully get a chance to go through my other projects and make them build cleanly with Clang, but it requires adding casts for any conversion from unsigned to signed or vice versa, so that may take a while.

You can get the latest version from the C TAP Harness distribution page.

2015-04-26 17:32 — Permanent link

2015-04-26: rra-c-util 5.7

This release has a somewhat random collection of accumulated fixes.

A couple of them are for the PAM libraries: new support for the Mac OS X PAM implementation, which doesn't use the same options and error codes as the rest of the world. It also uses a different pattern of const declaration, which required some additional Autoconf probing for the fake PAM library for testing.

There are also a few fixes for the systemd probe framework: libsystemd-daemon has been rolled into libsystemd in current versions, and the probe was using $(), which doesn't work on Solaris 10.

The Kerberos Autoconf macros should now hopefully work with the version of Kerberos bundled with Solaris 10.

Finally, this release supports checking for Clang as a compiler and choosing compiler warning flags accordingly, although rra-c-util isn't warning-free with Clang -Weverything yet.

You can get the latest release from the rra-c-util distribution page.

2015-04-26 17:44 — Permanent link

2015-04-26: lbcd 3.5.2

This is a fairly minor patch release of the lbcd daemon, which is a daemon that listens for and responds to a simple UDP protocol to request information about system load. It's used in conjunction with lbnamed for dyanmic DNS, and can also be used as a lightweight way to remotely query load.

The only real change in this version is to support linking with libsystemd instead of libsystemd-daemon, since systemd upstream has merged the various small support libraries into one. I also did my normal merge of changes from C TAP Harness and rra-c-util.

NOTE: This package is actually orphaned. No one else has picked it up, and I still maintain the Debian package, so I went ahead and did a new release with this fix. But I'm not planning on doing any significant work on it, and am happy to hand it off to another maintainer.

You can get the latest release from the lbcd distribution page.

2015-04-26 17:56 — Permanent link