gnu m4

[Alberto D. <al...@ur...>]

Hello, I'm doing some work to make cvs-nserver full OpenBSD
compliant :-)

Basically there are three things to do to successfully build
cvs-nserver on OpenBSD:

1) Cut out the line below from src/server.c :
#define _POSIX_SOURCE 1

(server.c includes <sys/socket.h> which has some non posix
declarations, and also uses FD_SETSIZE which is declared
in sys/types.h only when _POSIX_SOURCE is not declared)


2) Install gnu-m4 which is not supported by OpenBSD (gnu m4
is not even present in to the ports tree of release 3.0).
It seems that OpenBSD's m4 can substitute gnu m4 in almost every
situation , but the following autoconf rule which checks
for gnu m4 fails:

AC_PROG_GNU_M4

(it fails checking for frozen files support)

3) Compile with GNU Make.


Now, point (1) is a suggestion to patch source code.
Point (3) is no problem. About point (2) is not clear to me if the
AC_PROG_GNU_M4 rule was inserted in configure.in by some automatic tool
like autoscan or was manually inserted by cvs-nserver coders , and why it
was inserted.
Do you think it is strictly needed ?


Also in the next days I hope to send you patches to integrate
OpenBSD changes made to cvs into cvs-nserver.
Actually I have made a single patch yet and I tested it. But I want to
separate it in single patches for each bugfix/feature made by
the OpenBSD team, before submitting them to you.

Greets,
					Alberto.

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