Re: [Tracker] Building the current cvs version.

[Anders Aagaard <aagaande gmail com>]

Jamie McCracken wrote:
> Anders Aagaard wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> you are probably missing some standard automake macros then
>
> try upgrading automake?
>
> or google for more info on that macro
>
> You can download a different version of libextractor and use that 
> (tracker will not build its internal libextractor in that case)
>
> > > > 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.
>
> me too! I hate the auto-foo shit (I always end up copying stuff from 
> other packages!)
>
> I dont have ionice support in my kernel so I cant really implement this 
> but Im happy to accept patches that does (with auto-foo and #ifdefs)

Attaching a patch that works for me, when running ioprio now reports 
best-effort priority 7.  Which should improve desktop performance quite 
a bit while running tracker updates.

Do you want the #define IOPRIO_SUPPORT moved from tracker-ioprio.h to 
configure.in?  And if you do, does anyone know how to get autoconf to 
check for the existance of a define? :P, that shouldn't be that hard ;)

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