[JDEV] Re: jabberd 1.4.3 release candidate

[Yobb]

Hi! All,

I have upgrade the pth from 1.4.0 to 2.0.0 of Jabberd-1.4.2 and it works well. Is it necessary?

And the xdb_sql for oracle segmentfault is still there. Anybody  could help?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Frank Seesink" <frank at mail.wvnet.edu>
To: <jdev at jabber.org>
Cc: <jadmin at jabber.org>
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 2:29 AM
Subject: [JDEV] Re: jabberd 1.4.3 release candidate


> Peter,
> 
> Checked out the CVS code.  A few questions:
> 
> 1.  I notice that ./jabberd/pth-1.4.0 is not in CVS.  Will the final 
> tar/gzip file contain this when v1.4.3 is released (as it was in v1.4.2)?
> 
> 2.  I also noticed a few minor changes to ./configure, namely removing 
> instructions for building pth.  Will those be restored as in 1.4.2?
> 
> I'm working on patches to allow jabberd to compile cleanly under Cygwin 
> like it does under *nix.  This basically involves just modifying various 
> Makefiles, and following some simple steps like building pth before 
> attempting to build jabberd (hence the questions).  I'm doing the same 
> for JUD, MU-Conference, xdb_ldap, and xdb_sql (all of which I've gotten 
> to compile).
> 
> I've had v1.4.2 running in production under Cygwin since July (dept. use 
> only), with SSL support, JUD v0.5, and MU-Conference v0.3 (v0.5.2 would 
> cause segfaults, but v0.3 works great).  Recently I tried turning up s2s 
> and had jabberd segfault.
> 
> In short, the two things that bite you in Cygwin are dynamic libraries 
> and lack of BIND/libresolv.  I plan to write up more on this in the 
> future, but basically dynamic libraries in Windows end in .DLL, not .a, 
> and require the use of a Cygwin wrapper tool so that they are loaded by 
> Windows properly.  As for libresolv, Cygwin still does not offer a BIND 
> or equivalent package, and it is ONLY an issue for compiling apps which 
> require DNS resolution (like Jabber) via functions like res_query() 
> normally offered in the libresolv library.  Other than these two 
> differences, building under Cygwin is really no different than Linux 
> (heck, Red Hat maintains Cygwin :-) ).
> 
> Also recently discovered minires v0.9.7, a nice non-caching resolver 
> written by someone obviously as frustrated with the lack of a libresolv 
> as I am.  This MAY allow jabber (both 1.4.x & 2.0.0) to build cleanly 
> under Cygwin--1.4.x via the modified Makefiles I will submit, 2.0.0 by 
> the fact they're using autoconf and all the newer tools which I believe 
> now automate the building of DLLs even under Cygwin.  But won't know 
> with 2.0.0 'til I get past the ./configure script (it's giving me sh*tfits).
> 
> Starting to test the 1.4.3 build now.  More to come soon.
> 
> 
> Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> 
> > On behalf of the jabberd 1.4 team, I'd like to announce a release
> > candidate for jabberd 1.4.3. It is expected that this will be the
> > terminal release for the jabberd 1.4 codebase. In order to test this
> > release, please check out the tagged code from the 'jabberd14' module 
> > on JabberStudio by typing the following command:
> > 
> >    cvs co -r JABBERD_1_4_3 jabberd14
> > 
> > For the next week, the jabberd 1.4 team will accept code patches that
> > fix known bugs in the code (NO NEW FEATURES!). Please send any patches
> > to jdev at jabber.org before the end of the day on Wednesday, October 15.
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > Peter
> 
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