[netperf-talk] netperf4: solaris building, and usage..

[Andrew Gallatin]

I'm trying to get netperf4 working on Solaris because I need a
multi-threaded bandwidth benchmark (as opposed to iperf, which, while
it does threads, is mainly a gettimeofday benchmark).

I checked this out from svn:
http://www.netperf.org/svn/netperf4/branches/glib_migration

I'm trying to build on Solaris10U1, sparc and x86.
On x86, I've actually managed to produce binaries, but
I'm unsure as yet what to do with them.  Here are the
problems I've encountered, and the hacks I've applied
to get them out of my way:

1) Solaris 10U1 has a glib2, pkg-config, and all that GNUish stuff,
but probably not the one you want.  The build dies with complaints
that it cannot find gstdio.h.  To work around this, I installed glib2,
libxml2 and pkg-config from blastwave.org and re-configured.   

2) Somewhere in here, the build dies because it cannot find
netsysstats_kstat10.c and netlib_kstat10.c.   This confused
me, since configure knows about them.  Do they exist, just
not on this branch?  Anyway, I copied the _none variants
over to their names.

2) At this point, the build dies complaining about passing a
GNUish --export-dynamic dynamic to ld.  I edited src/Makefile
by hand and removed this flag.

3) After 2 hours, I now have binaries (woo-hoo!).  But I
have no clue how to use them.

When I try to start netserver, it dies:
     establish_listen: could not resolve host '

I started it like I always have in the past:
     src/netserver

Running with --nodaemonize shows that its SEGV'ing
due to a null localhost_name:

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0xfeac4acc in strlen () from /lib/libc.so.1
(gdb) bt
#0  0xfeac4acc in strlen () from /lib/libc.so.1
#1  0xfeb1a086 in _ndoprnt () from /lib/libc.so.1
#2  0xfeb1cc0d in fprintf () from /lib/libc.so.1
#3  0x08056d07 in establish_listen (hostname=0x0, 
    service=0x805a46a "netperf4", af=1, addrlenp=0x8047388) at
netlib.c:1748
#4  0x08054600 in main (argc=1, argv=0x80477f8) at netserver.c:787
gdb) frame 4
#4  0x08054600 in main (argc=1, argv=0x80477f8) at netserver.c:787
787         listenfd = establish_listen(local_host_name,
(gdb) p local_host_name
$1 = 0x0


Please help..

Thanks,

Drew