I’ve been working away at getting Bugzilla on QNX, but I almost feel I
have become a recursive algorithm, as I delve deeper and deeper into
porting activities in order to satisfy pre-requisites.
I have ported MySQL version 3.22.32 (this necessitated porting about 4
other things first). I have just recently compiled perl 5.6.1 (want to
use Bundle::Bugzilla), however package manager exploded when I tried to
package it (and although everything seemed to compile fine, “make test”
yielded only a 74% score - don’t know what that means).
Anyway, if anyone has already managed to get Bugzilla to work on QNX 6,
I’d be mighty appreciative of any pointers to (for instance) a working
perl 5.6.1 port (preferably packaged).
Is Bugzilla something like GNATS? We’ve been using that internally for
quite some time and been very satisfied with it. I suppose suggesting
alternatives is not as good as helping but I’ve been down the path you’re
walking a few times and it’s a real nuisance. Hmm…I need this for that
but it needs this other thing which needs such and such…ad infinitum. It
can drive you crazy, especially if you find a bunch of things that mostly
compile ‘out of the box’ and then, after hours of work, run into some really
nasty, obscure lib that just defies porting and everything is screwed up
because the chain is broken…GRRR. 
Kris
“Rennie Allen” <rallen@csical.com> wrote in message
news:3C7AEB41.5040606@csical.com…
I’ve been working away at getting Bugzilla on QNX, but I almost feel I
have become a recursive algorithm, as I delve deeper and deeper into
porting activities in order to satisfy pre-requisites.
I have ported MySQL version 3.22.32 (this necessitated porting about 4
other things first). I have just recently compiled perl 5.6.1 (want to
use Bundle::Bugzilla), however package manager exploded when I tried to
package it (and although everything seemed to compile fine, “make test”
yielded only a 74% score - don’t know what that means).
Anyway, if anyone has already managed to get Bugzilla to work on QNX 6,
I’d be mighty appreciative of any pointers to (for instance) a working
perl 5.6.1 port (preferably packaged).
Kris Warkentin wrote:
Is Bugzilla something like GNATS? We’ve been using that internally for
quite some time and been very satisfied with it. I suppose suggesting
alternatives is not as good as helping but I’ve been down the path you’re
walking a few times and it’s a real nuisance. Hmm…I need this for that
but it needs this other thing which needs such and such…ad infinitum. It
can drive you crazy, especially if you find a bunch of things that mostly
compile ‘out of the box’ and then, after hours of work, run into some really
nasty, obscure lib that just defies porting and everything is screwed up
because the chain is broken…GRRR. >
I have ported gnats; however, while snooping around on the newsgroups, I
have come to the conclusion that Bugzilla is better. Since I’m just
starting out with automated defect tracking, I have decided to at least
give Bugzilla a look-see first (it is written in Perl, and will work
with the 5.6.0 distributed with QNX - it’s just that there isn’t a
bundle for 5.6.0, and you have to import a whole pile of modules one by
one).
Anyway, thanks for the response…
Rennie