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On 05/01/2026 9:33 PM PDT Hal Murray <<a href="mailto:halmurray@sonic.net">halmurray@sonic.net</a>> wrote:
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<div>Thanks.</div>
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<div>2. Bump waf to version 2.1.9, to heed GNU directories (#870)</div>
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<div>This looks like something we should do. What's involved? Just download</div>
<div>the new waf and see if it works?</div>
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<div>Only if you want to be inconsistent with some of the docs</div>
<div>and break the pages builder; see merge request !1489</div>
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<div>6. Add a driver for the chrony socket refclock (#756)</div>
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<div>Gary, this is your area. How hard is it?</div>
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<div>I'm not Gary; see merge requests 1430 and 1307; I also have</div>
<div>some changes that I picked up from an erroneous LLM that are</div>
<div>not in 1430 yet.</div>
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<div>I'm certain Gary will downvote because I refuse to restrict time votes to root.</div>
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<div>8. Replace the ntpd log when it's not where it was before</div>
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<div>Logrotate works for me. What do you have in mind?</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>10. Try using the "-pthread" cflag for compile & link</div>
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<div>What would that do? I poked around a bit. An old man page for</div>
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<div>Compile and link with -pthread.</div>
<div>but that's not in a current man page.</div>
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<div>I tried it. ntpd has the same length. Is there an easy way to tell if</div>
<div>any of the code changed?</div>
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<div>Should we add it, just to be safe on old systems?</div>
<div>Is there any reason not to?</div>
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<div>I only added this, IIRC, because it checked off a box somewhere and I can't find the box anymore.</div>
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<div>OT: It appears the build is not reproducible on macOS w/ brew; an inferior check generates 166 differing 16-byte lines...</div>
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<div>(diffs of `hexdump -C "${blob}"|cut -c 11-60`)</div>
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