vim & xcodebuild

Small hint to those rare birds who (like me) want to work on his Xcode projects over ssh connection and uses vim for this purpose. Usually I use quickfix mode but there is no compiler file for Xcode in vim distribution. Luckily there is obsolete pbx.vim (compiler file for Apple Project Builder, predecessor of Xcode) that could be easily converted to support modern tools. Of course, writing xcode.vim from scratch would take only a couple of minutes but who wants to make it manually if it's possible to automate this process?

Here is magic command:

cat /usr/share/vim/vim72/compiler/pbx.vim | sed s/pbx/xcode/g > /usr/share/vim/vim72/compiler/xcode.vim

Stay tuned. Next week I'll teach you how to control Death Star with simple perl script.

ohloh and FreeBSD

ohloh seems to be unable to grind FreeBSD's svn repo. I've been watching for its efforts for several days now and commits progress meter resets from time to time:
https://www.ohloh.net/p/freebsd/enlistments

singleuser on routerstation

http://people.freebsd.org/~gonzo/mips/routerstation.log

Some issues still pending though. Cache management is major one. Things seemed to work fine in emulation but backfired into face with real hardware. I ran into several "random" bugs that were narrowed down to caches. More to go :( Also ethernet driver performance is low but it's easier then hunting down ethereal cache matters. Or so I think.

This weekend will be dedicated to making openocd work with routerstation, learning debugging and profiling techniques for MIPS hardware and improving FreeBSD/MIPS pieces of DDB.