Re: [Tracker] Building the current cvs version.

[Anders Aagaard <aagaande gmail com>]

Jamie McCracken wrote:
> 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

Checked out a clean version now and that fixed it.

> > 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!

I just did a clean checkout and I still get that error.

> > 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)?

Just tried a nice --adjustment 19 on a process now, and used ionice -p 
<process> to check the ionice level.  And it reported ioclass none, 
ioprio 0.  (which in the kernel translates to ioclass best effort, ioprio 4)

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

Might be possible to get configure to check for this, but I'm horrible 
at autotools.