[rox-devel] Filer 2.5 needs small mod for NetBSD

[garry <ref...@be...>]

ROX is really beautiful, thanks to you all.  I've been using it from
pkgsrc on NetBSD for more than a year (NetBSD 2.1 on a little
EPIA 800 MHz mini-itx) .  In moving up to the ROX-Filer
2.5 release (pkgsrc still has 2.4.1) I found that I had to
change the compiler invocation in AppRun to

 gmake clean && gmake LIBS="-Wl,-R/usr/X11R6/lib"

The auto generated makefiles are dependent on GNU make,
"gmake" on a NetBSD system (BSD make encounters
syntax errors).

The linker directive is necessary because NetBSD does not,
by default, search an LDPATH for runtime libraries. It proves
to be less problematic to let each executable remember the
library location(s) itself. See the NetBSD ELF FAQ  
<http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/elf.html#elf-rpath>

The same small change to AppRun allows yesterday's subversion
code to compile and run on NetBSD also. 

I just wanted to let you know that your build system is in fact
very portable and ROX-Filer 2.5 is running well under NetBSD
with Fluxbox 1.0rc2.


I don't think many of you guys run NetBSD --- what's the matter
with you :-D


(I ran a small office network for four years on RedHat Linux,
then Debian GNU/Linux, then Gentoo Linux, then switched
to BSD for what seemed to me to be a better stability.  I used
FreeBSD first but the road got rocky during the 5.0 release
so I finally moved to NetBSD and love it.)

-- 
garry roseman
Linux Certified and BSD Certainly
Moscow, Tennessee