Obsolete:Wackamole

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Wackamole is a utility for managing virtual IP addresses. We've never used it, this is just about experimental installation.

Installation

• Download from http://www.backhand.org/wackamole/
• Install spread, see that article for details
• ./configure --with-cppflags=-I/usr/local/include --with-ldflags=-Wl,-rpath=/usr/local/lib
  • The above line is not a joke, that's how to install it against a default installation of spread. That's not how it says to install it in the docs, if you follow the docs you'll get "configure: error: cannot compute sizeof (char)"
• Apply some patches as described at [1]. This is where I'll stop for now.