[OpenIndiana-New-developers] Building XNV_155 question

[Alasdair Lumsden]

Hi Frank,

On 04/04/2011 01:42, Frank Middleton wrote:
 > Hmm. Maybe there's something else amiss. Am I the only "new developer"?
 > BTW I have more years of experience with C, Fortran, and Cobol as an
 > application architect/designer/coder than I really want to admit to. I've
 > even written a custom OS that was in production for years. But I've 
always
 > used tools that create makefiles so debugging them is an adventure...
 >
 > It seems that the xnv source is about 6 million lines of C - about twice
 > the size of the biggest system I ever programmed. Shouldn't be too hard
 > to debug :-). How to get started? Should I be looking at dtrace first?
 > truss,
 > pstack etc., don't show anything particularly useful. Of course this 
might
 > not be a bug in Xorg but it sure looks like one...

I think the new-developers list is sparsely populated at the moment - we 
haven't done a huge amount of advertising of it, so your requests for 
help probably aren't reaching the right people, especially as this is 
quite a technical issue and you have a lot background :-)

Would you mind re-posting to the main oi-dev list?

Alan Coopersmith at Oracle maintains the XNV consolidation and may also 
be able to help you, I believe he follows the oi-dev list.

If you don't get any answers on there, I'll try and prod/poke some 
people :-)

Cheers,

Alasdair