Re: [Motion-user] Motion 3.1.19 configure fails on FreeBSD 4.10

[Angel C. <ac...@te...>]

El lun, 23-05-2005 a las 15:15 -0500, Piotr A. Sygula escribi=C3=B3:
> Hello all (especially Angel, the FreeBSD man!)
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Hi Piotr,

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> As suggested by the Subject, I'm having issues building 3.1.19 on
> FreeBSD 4.10.  Specifically, the ./configure script fails around the CPU
> autodetection code.  I've even went as far as to install linux_base and
> linprocfs as per Angels FreeBSD README in the distro. =20
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> The error is:
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> checking size of short int... 2
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> checking for int... yes
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> checking size of int... 4
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> checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes
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> ./configure.lineno: 5228: Syntax error: Bad substitution
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> Line 5228 in configure.lineno happens to be:
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>         CPU_NAME=3D${CPU_NAME#'model name : '}
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> Seems like the autodetection just doesn't fly with FreeBSD.  The
> /usr/compat/linux/proc/cpuinfo file seems to be missing some tokens that
> the autodetection code looks for.  The file from my FBSD 4.10 machine is
> included below:
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I quick fix is to remplace this line by :

CPU_NAME=3D${CPU_NAME#'model : '}
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> Two questions;  first, how can this be fixed, second, any plans on
> rewriting configure to stay a bit more OS agnostic?  Seems pretty silly
> for BSD users to run linux compatibility just for the configure script
> to run.  Hopefully I didn't offend anyone with the above comment, but
> from a security standpoint I run FreeBSD, not linux, and cringe at
> anything that requires linux_base.
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Yes , in a future i'll try to merge both configure.in's ( linux , freebsd )=
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The use of linprocfs was a temporary "hack" to allow the optimization in
FreeBSD , but it'll remove soon. To remove linux_base motion needs to
implement a BSD thread model AFAIK and this has a low priority as no
many FreeBSD seems to be interested in .


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> Thanx in advance, you guys have concocted a helluva software package.=20
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> Peter A. Sygula
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> President/Chief Security Officer - NetShapers, Inc.
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> < http://www.net-shapers.com <http://www.net-shapers.com%20>  >
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Cheers,
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