[Devel] Compiling Presence module on Solaris 9

[Peter Edwards]

Hi, Bogdan.

It's been a long day, but it looks like I have success to report ... :)

The Makefile fix did indeed seem to solve my build problems and, with
the libxml2 fixes, the presence module also compiled OK.  Yay!

It's taken me quite some time to get everything up and running, mainly
due to some new Solaris issues in the latest CVS development version,
but luckily I've been able to work my way through them.

The first problem relates to the changes to the openser_mysql.sh script,
since the 1.1.0 release.  I've raised a bug report for this - I managed
to get the tables created, but I don't think this script has been tested
properly on Solaris yet.  I've described the hacks I used, but they're
probably not best practice!

The other major problem I haven't raised a bug for, is that the
openserctl script doesn't appear to be in-line with the latest database
structure - when I tried to "openserctl add" a subscriber, it complained
because the phplib_id column was no longer in the subscriber table.  I
removed that id from the insert statement, and it added the users OK.  I
didn't raise a bug for this because I assume this is just something yet
to be worked on and someone will update it in time for the next release.
Although, I'm happy to submit a bug if that's preferred.

So, after all that, I was able to get the server running and have been
able to detect the presence of a pair of users going on and offline.  I
haven't yet done anything more complicated than that (other than to see
that other presence states e.g. busy/on the phone etc. don't seem to
have any effect).

Thanks a lot for looking into this, bogdan.

Peter.

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