Re: [Tracker] Building the current cvs version.

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

Anders Aagaard wrote:
> Hi
>
> Been on my todo list to implement ionice support for tracker for a 
> while, since it's such a simple thing to do.  But I'm having some 
> problems building the current version.
>
> First when building I'm missing the directories thumbnailers/image and 
> src/tracker-gui.

these are in cvs - please check out a *clean version* rather than an 
incremental update


> And when taking that out I get the error:
> aclocal: macro `AM_PROG_MKDIR_P' required but not defined
> aclocal: macro `AM_PROG_MKDIR_P' required but not defined
> in the libextractor directory.

dont remove dirs please!


> Attaching a theoretically working implementation of ionice.  trackerd.c 
> would have to run the ionice_init() function.  I would have tested it 
> and made it a bit cleaner if I could get the cvs version compiled at all :P
>
> Most of the code for ionice is gotten from the snippet in the 
> Documentation/block/ioprio.txt file in the linux kernel.

Correct me If I am wrong, but does not ionice default to the cpu nice 
value (which is +10 for tracker and +19 for text filters)?

AFAIK, its linux specific and only in 2.6.13+ so I can't really depend 
on it.


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