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Date:      Tue, 4 Mar 2008 21:39:42 +0200
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Comments on pmake diffs for building on Linux
Message-ID:  <20080304193942.GB1947@kobe.laptop>
In-Reply-To: <20080304180146.GF90931@dragon.NUXI.org>
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On 2008-03-04 10:01, David O'Brien <obrien@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 05:37:30PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> > The next part, about the missing errx() functions on Solaris is going to
> > be tonight's fun.  If there are too many missing functions, it may be
> > worth adding a static `libcompat' with copies of just the functions we
> > need to run BSD make on non-BSD hosts.
> 
> fbsdmake will be just one of many tools you'll find you need.  A
> libfbsdcompat would be useful to this endevor.  If I were you, I would
> try to create one using FreeBSD src/ - that is assume a checked out
> FreeBSD is available.  See some of my sed'ing and unifdef*(1) hacks I've
> used over the years to build GNU stuff on FreeBSD.

A libfbsdcompat seems like one of the best options to keep the source
code changes down to a tolerable level, indeed.  Thanks for all the
_very_ useful input so far, David :)




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