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[Aaron Brown <>]

Hey Ralf,

Any idea why it’s being compiled with “-Werror”? NDT has a handful of minor 
warnings that crop up, but shouldn’t be problems.

Cheers,
Aaron

> On Apr 20, 2015, at 5:41 AM, Ralf Hildebrandt 
> <>
>  wrote:
> 
> * Aaron Brown 
> <>:
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> Due to recurring performance issues we've encountered with the flash 
>> client, we have decided to remove it, and go forward with a pure 
>> Javascript (i.e. WebSockets-based) client in its place. The Javascript 
>> client is still in testing, and depends on good WebSockets performance 
>> from the web browser. In the early testing we’ve done, Firefox, Safari and 
>> Chrome all work for 100M connections. Chrome and Safari can do >100M, but 
>> so far the performance seems to be limited to than ~400M.
>> 
>> Among other things, version 3.7.0 will include:
>>  - A java client that works with Java 8
>>  - A WebSockets-based client
>>  - A new web GUI
>>  - Support for using Apache instead of ‘fakewww'
>> 
>> This is a beta-test version, and is not recommended for general use yet. 
>> However, we're hoping that, with some testing in the community, this can 
>> be improved quickly and a production release can happen relatively soon. 
>> We're especially interested in feedback on how easy it is to use the 
>> various new tools, and features.
>> 
>> Tarball:
>> http://ndb1.internet2.edu/~aaron/ndt-3.7.0-5.1.el6.x86_64/ndt-3.7.0-rc4.tar.gz
>>  
> 
> Doesn't build for me:
> 
> mv -f .deps/testoptions_unit_tests-strlutils.Tpo 
> .deps/testoptions_unit_tests-strlutils.Po
> gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I..  -I/usr/include/pcap 
> -I/usr/local/include/estats  '-DBASEDIR="/usr/local/ndt"'
> -DFORCE_WEB100 -DUSE_WEB100SRV_ONLY_AS_LIBRARY -Wall -Werror 
> -Wno-unused-variable -Wno-unused-function    -pedantic -Wall
> -fno-strict-aliasing -std=gnu99 -DNDEBUG -O2 -DEXPERIMENTAL_ENABLED
> -DDATABASE_ENABLED -MT testoptions_unit_tests-test_meta_srv.o -MD -MP
> -MF .deps/testoptions_unit_tests-test_meta_srv.Tpo -c -o
> testoptions_unit_tests-test_meta_srv.o test -f 'test_meta_srv.c' || echo 
> './'test_meta_srv.c
> test_c2s_srv.c: In function ‘test_c2s’:
> test_c2s_srv.c:279:11: error: ignoring return value of ‘pipe’,
> declared with attribute warn_unused_result [-Werror=unused-result]
>       pipe(mon_pipe);
>                  ^
> cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
> make[2]: *** [testoptions_unit_tests-test_c2s_srv.o]
> Error 1
> make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> mv -f .deps/testoptions_unit_tests-network.Tpo 
> .deps/testoptions_unit_tests-network.Po
> mv -f .deps/testoptions_unit_tests-logging.Tpo 
> .deps/testoptions_unit_tests-logging.Po
> mv -f .deps/testoptions_unit_tests-test_meta_srv.Tpo 
> .deps/testoptions_unit_tests-test_meta_srv.Po
> make[2]: Leaving directory /usr/src/web10g/ndt-3.7.0-rc4/src'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory /usr/src/web10g/ndt-3.7.0-rc4'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> 
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