Re: [Tack-devel] ACK compiles on NetBSD-macppc, sort of...

[Gregory T. (t. K. <gt...@di...>]

(Sorry, I didn't mean to send to both Perry and the list with my previous re=
ply.)

At 10:53 PM -0400 7/19/06, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>I'm happy to interpret error messages and/or help make things build
>under NetBSD. It should be fairly straightforward -- I would guess
>most issues are caused by the fact that the current NetBSD compilers
>are fairly strict.

This is greatly appreciated.  What I am finding is the primary reasons ACK=
 isn't compiling is due to changes from BSD 4.2 to BSD 4.4 (outside of the=
 cdefs.h issue).  So far it's been a difference in off_t (from a long to=
 uint64_t) and a deprecated function call (ftime, replaced by gettimeofday),=
 and some #defines.  Tanenbaum uses pretty strict C in his stuff, as far as=
 I can tell, and so far I have not found a single compile error related to=
 the code itself.

>BTW, the right thing medium term is to make ACK into a pkgsrc package.

This is probably reasonable, since as far as I know pkgsrc has been ported=
 to all of the BSDs.  I'm still trying to put the pieces together, but I=
 think one step that will initially prevent usability on BSD is going to be=
 the lack of an ack.out -> elf linker/converter.  It took me a day or two to=
 realize ack.out is not a.out, but then again I'm a little slow on the uptak=
e.

tim

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