Not sure how this slipped through

[Martin Schwenke]

On Wed, 27 Jan 2021 15:58:55 +1300, Andrew Bartlett via samba-technical
<samba-technical at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 2021-01-26 at 19:55 +0100, David Disseldorp via samba-technical 
> wrote:
> > On Tue, 26 Jan 2021 18:15:48 +0000, Christopher O Cowan -
> > Christopher.O.Cowan--- via samba-technical wrote:
> >   
> > > My builds on AIX have been failing because of this obvious
> > > error.  Can someone please apply it?  
> > 
> > Looks good, thanks for the patch.
> > Reviewed-by: David Disseldorp <ddiss at samba.org>
> > 
> > @Jim: looks like you wrote this module ~15 years ago :). Can you
> > review
> > and push?
> >   
> > > Just wondering, are AIX builds still part of the CI/CD system?  
> > 
> > I'm not aware of any AIX CI jobs.  
> 
> Yeah, there really isn't any good way currently to do CI on AIX,
> because we can only test, currently, things that can boot up under
> Docker on a Linux host.
> 
> Even FreeBSD is out of reach, which is annoying.  I keep hoping someone
> might show up with the boundless energy required to try and get it
> going via (say) qemu or some 'FreeBSD-like' userspace for linux, but no
> luck so far. 

We should at least do build testing via cross-compilers (probably in
containers) on platforms we think we support.  That would be better
than nothing.

Something like this seem like a promising starting point for FreeBSD:

  https://github.com/myfreeweb/docker-freebsd-cross

We could ask those with a stake in the relevant platforms if they could
sponsor or do the relevant work.  Perhaps Jeremy knows someone with a
stake in FreeBSD who might like to contribute?

Beyond that, running tests would be a bonus.

peace & happiness,
martin