[Glibc-bsd-devel] GNU/kFreeBSD and package report

[Robert Millan]

On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 07:26:52PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> > 
> > The postgresql build system uses autotools to select some template that 
> > it then uses for building somehow. There is no template for 
> > i386-unknown-kfreebsd5.2.1-gnu or i386-pc-kfreebsd-gnu.
> 
> I'll have a look.

Since postgresql is a normal userland app, there's really nothing in its
configuration that depends on Linux. Rather, there must be something that
depends on gnu userland and is assigned to "linux*" triplets by the template
configuration.

Try this patch. This is what we generaly do for this kind of porting issue
(which is very common). "linux*-gnu|k*bsd*-gnu|gnu*" catches all known
Glibc-based systems so far (GNU/Linux, GNU/k*BSD and GNU/Hurd).

--- postgresql-7.4.3/configure.in~	2004-06-08 17:36:35.000000000 +0200
+++ postgresql-7.4.3/configure.in	2004-07-03 05:05:04.000000000 +0200
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@
  freebsd*) template=freebsd ;;
     hpux*) template=hpux ;;
     irix*) template=irix5 ;;
-   linux*) template=linux ;;
+   linux*-gnu|k*bsd*-gnu|gnu*) template=linux ;;
    mingw*) template=win32 ;;
   netbsd*) template=netbsd ;;
 nextstep*) template=nextstep ;;

-- 
Robert Millan

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thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he
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