[smartmontools-support] State of OS/2 port

[Christian Franke]

Hi Dave,

thanks for the positive feedback.

Dave Yeo via Smartmontools-support wrote:
> Hi, compiling the latest smartmontools git on ArcaOS (OEM version of 
> OS/2, arcanoae.com) configure output this at the tail,

Is there any free (evaluation?) version of this OS available we could 
use locally for compile tests?
Or alternatively, is there any free cross-toolchain available?


> ```
> configure: WARNING:
> This version of smartmontools does not use C++14, C++17 or C++20 
> enhancements,
> but future versions possibly will.
> This script was unable to determine a compiler option to enable C++20.
> Please send info about compiler and platform to
> smartmontools-support at listi.jpberlin.de - Thanks!

There are no plans to require C++20 very soon, but possibly C++14. So 
the above is good news.


> configure: WARNING:
> The OS/2 port of smartmontools is unmaintained.  Please report the test
> results to smartmontools-support at listi.jpberlin.de - Thanks!

Didn't expect such a quick feedback after I added the above message one 
week ago (88240355037d).

I will keep this message for a while but remove it for OS/2 (and keep 
QNX) before next release.


> ```
> Smartmontools compiled fine and seems to work fine.

Very good news, the recent "guessed" fix (20d527bc4a78) was apparently 
successful.


> I've attached the results of make check from the system's GCC, 9.2.0 
> and the latest available, 15.2.0. Not sure of other tests that I can do.

Did you test `smartctl -x -a ...`?

The os_os2.cpp module still uses the (meantime very) old interface which 
limits ATA pass-through to traditional SMART functionality. So `smartctl 
-x` will likely show many messages like:
"Non-SMART commands not implemented"

-- 
Thanks,
Christian