Catching up -- time for a release?

[James Browning]

> On 05/01/2026 9:33 PM PDT Hal Murray <halmurray at sonic.net mailto:halmurray at sonic.net> wrote:
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> Thanks.
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> > 2. Bump waf to version 2.1.9, to heed GNU directories (#870)
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> This looks like something we should do. What's involved? Just download
> the new waf and see if it works?
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Only if you want to be inconsistent with some of the docs
and break the pages builder; see merge request !1489
 

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> > 6. Add a driver for the chrony socket refclock (#756)
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> Gary, this is your area. How hard is it?
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I'm not Gary; see merge requests 1430 and 1307; I also have
some changes that I picked up from an erroneous LLM that are
not in 1430 yet.
 
I'm certain Gary will downvote because I refuse to restrict time votes to root.
 

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> > 8. Replace the ntpd log when it's not where it was before
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> Logrotate works for me. What do you have in mind?
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Redundant belt/suspenders; if the filesystem under the tree is replaced (i)or the inode the name points to changes, treat it as a new file.
 

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> > 10. Try using the "-pthread" cflag for compile & link
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> What would that do? I poked around a bit. An old man page for
> pthread_create says:
> Compile and link with -pthread.
> but that's not in a current man page.
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> I tried it. ntpd has the same length. Is there an easy way to tell if
> any of the code changed?
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> Should we add it, just to be safe on old systems?
> Is there any reason not to?
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I only added this, IIRC, because it checked off a box somewhere and I can't find the box anymore.
 
OT: It appears the build is not reproducible on macOS w/ brew; an inferior check generates 166 differing 16-byte lines...
 
(diffs of `hexdump -C "${blob}"|cut -c 11-60`)
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