[netperf-talk] two new (shaky) platforms added for netperf4

[Rick Jones]

Folks -

I just got two "mostly" successful runs, one on AIX 5.3 and another on 
Windows XP running the "default" tests.  The confidence intervals stuff 
looks squirelly on both of them - not sure if it is related to some 
stuff I did to "workaround" a shared library not (easily if at all) 
being able to link to a routine up in the main executable on each.  I 
suspect there are issues with the function being called via a function 
pointer actually being able to access globals in the main exe.  A 
"netperf_util" library is probably called for. Populated initially with 
the code of src/netconfidence.c.

Things look "ok" for the AIX  netserver side though - I've gotten sane 
numbers for the basic loopback TCP_STREAM and TCP_RR tests using what 
happened to be an HP-UX system for the system running netperf (and thus 
the one calling the confidence interval code).

I'm unable to do a similar run for Windows - presently, the library 
names are not sufficiently "abstract" - netperf and netserver both try 
to load libraries based on the library name(s) in the config file, and 
under Windows the libraries are .dll and under the rest of the world, 
.la (libtool, g_module_open groks it).

g_module_open (from glib GModule) already tries  some interesting 
additions to names, I have to see if it will do the .la bit or not.

Anyway, if folks have cycles and inclination, please fee free to grab 
the latest bits from:

http://www.netperf.org/svn/netperf4/branches/glib_migration

rick jones

This means that to date, netperf4 has been run in some shape or form under:

AIX 5.3
HP-UX (11.23)
Linux (Debian with 2.6 kernel)
MacOS X 10.3.9
Windows XP