Re: [Help-gnucap] Compiling for FreeBSD

[Richard Gipps]

On 03/04/17 1:46 PM, al davis wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Mar 2017 22:08:26 +1100
> Richard Gipps <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 1. FreeBSD uses PMake rather than GNU Make. Part of the compilation
> > fails with PMake. To change to GNU Make perform the following steps:
> >       a) Download and install GNU Make: pkg install gmake-4.2.1_1.
> >       b) cd /usr/bin
> >       c) mv make make.backup (in case you need to change back)
> >       d) create a symbolic link: ln -s /usr/local/bin/gmake make
> How about:
> a) install make (pkg install gmake)
> b) type "gmake" instead of "make"
I will give this a try next time I compile it.
> If you have a fix for it that will make it work with pmake, I would
> likely apply the fix.  (provided that it is simple, clean, and doesn't
> break gmake).
>
>
> > 1. Add the following line to gnucap\lib\test_readline.cc
> >
> >       #include <stdio.h>
> >
> >       I am note sure how the configure script could work on any system
> > without this change as readline.h references a FILE* but does not
> > include stdio.
> Obviously it did work for me.  I would not have released it otherwise.
>
> Doing a little research here .....  The Debian version includes
> stdio.h, since 2001.  Apparently the change was never applied back to
> "upstream", because the git master does not.
>
> Header files are supposed to include what they need, so this is really
> a bug in readline.
I agree

> But since that's the way it is, I have changed it in gnucap, with a
> comment stating that it may be needed by readline.h and history.h.
> Without the comment, it will disappear again as apparently useless code
> is removed.
Thanks.
> It's really not critical, because it doesn't prevent you from building
> gnucap.  It just builds it without readline.
>
> > 2. run the configure script.
> >
> > 3. In gnucap/lib/Make2 change -ldl to -lc as on FreeBSD, libdl is part
> > of libc.
> make the change to gnucap/lib/configure, which generates
> gnucap/lib/Make2 .
Noted.
> Do that for now.  We need to further study what is going on to make a
> proper fix.  The "dlopen" and family seems to be inconsistent between
> systems.
>
>
> > 4. run make
>
>
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