Re: Compiling on NetBSD and MSYS

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Curt Arnold wrote:

> The autoconf-based build is broken for Debian and BSD systems.  There
> has been discussions on the list but nobody has stepped up to volunteer
> to revamp it and I'm a novice with regard to it.   I've logged a bug
> (http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOGCXX-43) on this and added this
> as a blocker for the 0.9.8 release.  It will have to be done before an
> 0.9.8 release, but if I'm not going to take it on until I've run out of
> other tasks that need attention and then I would likely beg one another
> group for help.

What exactly needs fixing for Debian/BSD systems?  I'd be more than glad to
provide a patch if I can figure out exactly what's broken.

On BSD, the biggest cause of pains is the fact that you guys don't distribute
the tarball with configure, etc already generated like most packages.  Just
doing this would solve a lot of headaches for folks that haven't messed with it
before on BSD.  IIRC, the only other thing that's broken on BSD is the missing
HAVE_ALLOCA_H check in tchars.h, but like you said you're ditching that.

The only other thing I know of off the top of my head that needs fixing
configure-wise, is a few checks that don't work as they should.  The one I know
for sure is the unicode check.  While --enable-unicode works as it should,
- --disable-unicode does not.

Cheers
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Aaron Walker <ka0ttic@xxxxxxxxxx>
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