Re: [B2-devel] BasiliskII compilation issues

[Robert M. <mr...@gm...>]

Dear Giulio,

Thanks for writing back, and thanks for the detailed responses. It's
good to have answers to at least some of the stuff that I did not
understand!

But I guess we're still stuck on the main problem. I was hoping you
might be able to figure out how to fix it.

What we need is someone who has a computer with this problem, and who
is also able to figure out how to get it to build (and run!), who can
tell us how the configure.ac needs to change so that it will work
properly without any manual temporary patch.

It's too bad -- it looks like Debian will need to remove BasII.

- Robert

On 6/15/12, Giulio Paci <giu...@gm...> wrote:
> Yes, the two usual fixes are either 1) temporary patch the building
> system or 2) wait for an upstream patched release.
> [...]
> config.h.in is normally generated by autoheader, configure.ac is usually
> the manually edited main source and configure is automatically generated
> by autoconf and is responsible to convert .in files into the final file
> (e.g., to create config.h from config.h.in).
> [...]
> The problem is that 1) I do not understand what to check for and 2) I do
> not understand the implication of undefining HAVE_DEV_PTMX.
>
> It is not a matter to detect Debian, as the building procedure is
> already working on many Debian architectures. It is a matter of
> detecting freebsd kernel in a Debian OS, but why? What features is
> missing? As the same problem appeared long time ago in NetBSD and other
> *BSD, is it related to FreeBSD?

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