Bareos Porting Notes¶
This document is intended mostly for developers who wish to port Bareos to a system that is not officially supported.
It is hoped that Bareos clients will eventually run on every imaginable system that needs backing up. It is also hoped that the Bareos Directory and Storage daemons will run on every system capable of supporting them.
Porting Requirements¶
In General, the following holds true:
- Your compiler must provide support for 64 bit signed and unsigned integers.
- You will need a recent copy of the autoconf tools loaded on your system (version 2.13 or later). The autoconf tools are used to build the configuration program, but are not part of the Bareos source distribution.
- Bareos requires a good implementation of pthreads to work.
- The source code has been written with portability in mind and is mostly POSIX compatible. Thus porting to any POSIX compatible operating system should be relatively easy.
Steps to Take for Porting¶
The first step is to ensure that you have version 2.13 or later of the autoconf tools loaded. You can skip this step, but making changes to the configuration program will be difficult or impossible.
The run a ./configure command in the main source directory and examine the output. It should look something like the following:
Configuration on Mon Oct 28 11:42:27 CET 2002: Host: i686-pc-linux-gnu -- redhat 7.3 Bareos version: 1.27 (26 October 2002) Source code location: . Install binaries: /sbin Install config files: /etc/bareos C Compiler: gcc C++ Compiler: c++ Compiler flags: -g -O2 Linker flags: Libraries: -lpthread Statically Linked Tools: no Database found: no Database type: Internal Database lib: Job Output Email: root@localhost Traceback Email: root@localhost SMTP Host Address: localhost Director Port 9101 File daemon Port 9102 Storage daemon Port 9103 Working directory /etc/bareos/working SQL binaries Directory Large file support: yes readline support: yes TCP Wrappers support: no ZLIB support: yes enable-smartalloc: yes enable-gnome: no gmp support: yes
The details depend on your system. The first thing to check is that it properly identified your host on the Host: line. The first part (added in version 1.27) is the GNU four part identification of your system. The part after the – is your system and the system version. Generally, if your system is not yet supported, you must correct these.
If the ./configure does not function properly, you must determine the cause and fix it. Generally, it will be because some required system routine is not available on your machine.
To correct problems with detection of your system type or with routines and libraries, you must edit the file <bareos-src>/autoconf/configure.in. This is the “source” from which configure is built. In general, most of the changes for your system will be made in autoconf/aclocal.m4 in the routine BA_CHECK_OPSYS or in the routine BA_CHECK_OPSYS_DISTNAME. I have already added the necessary code for most systems, but if yours shows up as unknown you will need to make changes. Then as mentioned above, you will need to set a number of system dependent items in configure.in in the case statement at approximately line 1050 (depending on the Bareos release).
The items to in the case statement that corresponds to your system are the following:
- DISTVER – set to the version of your operating system. Typically some form of uname obtains it.
- TAPEDRIVE – the default tape drive. Not too important as the user can set it as an option.
- PSCMD – set to the ps command that will provide the PID in the first field and the program name in the second field. If this is not set properly, the bareos stop script will most likely not be able to stop Bareos in all cases.
- hostname – command to return the base host name (non-qualified) of your system. This is generally the machine name. Not too important as the user can correct this in his configuration file.
- CFLAGS – set any special compiler flags needed. Many systems need a special flag to make pthreads work. See cygwin for an example.
- LDFLAGS – set any special loader flags. See cygwin for an example.
- PTHREAD_LIB – set for any special pthreads flags needed during linking. See freebsd as an example.
- lld – set so that a “long long int” will be properly edited in a printf() call.
- llu – set so that a “long long unsigned” will be properly edited in a printf() call.
- PFILES – set to add any files that you may define is your platform subdirectory. These files are used for installation of automatic system startup of Bareos daemons.
To rebuild a new version of configure from a changed autoconf/configure.in you enter make configure in the top level Bareos source directory. You must have done a ./configure prior to trying to rebuild the configure script or it will get into an infinite loop.
If the make configure gets into an infinite loop, ctl-c it, then do ./configure (no options are necessary) and retry the make configure, which should now work.
To rebuild configure you will need to have autoconf version 2.57-3 or higher loaded. Older versions of autoconf will complain about unknown or bad options, and won’t work.
After you have a working configure script, you may need to make a few system dependent changes to the way Bareos works. Generally, these are done in src/baconfig.h. You can find a few examples of system dependent changes toward the end of this file. For example, on Irix systems, there is no definition for socklen_t, so it is made in this file. If your system has structure alignment requirements, check the definition of BALIGN in this file. Currently, all Bareos allocated memory is aligned on a double boundary.
If you are having problems with Bareos’s type definitions, you might look at src/bc_types.h where all the types such as uint32_t, uint64_t, etc. that Bareos uses are defined.