[ntp:hackers] whats going on with ppsapi_timepps.h ???

Harlan Stenn stenn at ntp.isc.org
Sun Jun 3 12:13:02 PDT 2007


Reg,

I have no idea about this - I'll take a look.

H
--
> Harlan & all:-
> 
> I have not been following the two ntp lists carefully recently, just
> reading the Subject lines.  However I now have a (minor) fix to 
> the linuxPPS stuff in the oncore driver, and pulled the two 'latest'
> versions of ntp,
>     ntp-4.2.4p0
>     ntp-4.2.4p2-RC5
> and find them both confused.
> 
> Someone (Harlan) has changed the name of the timepps.h include
> file to ppsapi_timepps.h on INCLUDE cards and Makefiles, but did
> not scan the rest of the code to see places where the name was mentioned.
> 
> And the thing that hit me in the ass, the change WASNOT MADE
> in the configure files.
> 
> I have scanned my archive of the ntp groups for 2006 and 2007 and
> see no mention of this change.
> 
> I have scanned the code, and other than the ChangeLog, see no
> mention of this change.  Seems something as important as this
> SHOULD BE MENTIONED IN CAPITAL LETTERS SOMEWHERE.
> 
> Worse yet, the configure files have changed from the way they were
> some months ago.  Refclock_oncore.c has always looked for timepps.h
> in both
>          /usr/include/timepps.h
> and    /usr/include/sys/timepps.h
> 
> but now it only looks in
>          /usr/include/ppsapi-timepps.h
> 
> again, I see no comment anywhere saying that the file should be moved
> to this location.  [[ Is there some way to get the file put there in the
> standard UNIX/Linux distributions??? ]]
> 
> So, I am confused as to what the logic of these changes are, and why
> we have Release candidates that CLEARLY cant work for any PPS 
> source, since the CONFIGURE and the SOURCE code dont agree
> on what the name of this include file is.
> Neither HAVE_PPSAPI nor CLOCK_ONCORE (nor any other
> PPSAPI clock) can ever be set.
> 
> Confused as to where this is going.
> -- 
>                                         Reg.Clemens
>                                         reg at dwf.com
> 


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