Re: kfreebsd*-gnu/k*bsd*-gnu support.

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Kurt, Aurelien,

* Kurt Roeckx wrote on Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 04:37:09PM CET:
> 
> I've attached 2 patches that should get kfreebsd*-gnu and
> knetbsd*-gnu support, or more in general k*bsd*-gnu support
> working properly.

Was it broken before (honest question)?

> k*bsd behaves like Linux, but with a bsd kernel.  They have a gnu
> libc, gnu binutils, ...  Some of the things currently in libtool.m4
> are actually for the case they wouldn't be using gnu ld, and
> therefor break.  They mostly seem to have problem with the
> kfreebsd-amd64 port.
> 
> The patch changed (almost) everything to do the same as on Linux.
> It's based on a patch provided by Aurelien Jarno.  I've made a
> patch for both the 1.5 branch and 2.0.

The patches look fine to me, but they change how a number of things work
on kfreebsd*-gnu and knetbsd*-gnu.  Is it right that Debian is still
basically the only producer of such a system, and that you are needing
the changes anyway, so a flag day is a non issue?

> One thing I have to wonder about is they need to set LD in
> _LT_AC_LOCK for arches that support 64 bit.

What's the gist of this comment?  (Except for that the name _LT_AC_LOCK
is exceptionally stupid, granted ;-)

Cheers,
Ralf