Building on FreeBSD 6.1

[Steev Klimaszewski]

Aron Stansvik wrote:
> Hello DBus folks!
> 
> Today I tried building 0.93 on FreeBSD 6.1 and bumped into two minor
> issues. The first is that on FreeBSD dirfd(2) is a macro, and not a
> function, and hence will not be found by the AC_CHECK_FUNCS() macro in
> configure.in. This results in a compilation error as on my system
> dbus-sysdeps-util-unix.c:518 is reached:
> 
> #           error "buffer size for readdir_r cannot be determined"
> 
> thiago suggested on IRC that AC_TRY_COMPILE should be used to check
> for dirfd(2) instead, but I'm an autotools illiterate so I don't quite
> know how to go about this (I also saw in autoconf manual that
> AC_TRY_COMPILE is deprecated in favor of AC_COMPILE_IFELSE(), which I
> guess should be used instead).
> 
> The second problem is simpler; FreeBSD needs the -pthread link flag in
> order to find the POSIX threads symbols.
> 
> These are the two things that are needed to get DBus to compile out of
> the box on FreeBSD, so if someone with their fingers deep in the build
> system could respond, that would be great.
> 
> If access to a FreeBSD system would help, e-mail me privatly and you
> can get an account on my machine.
> 
> Thanks for your great work on an important piece in the *NIX desktop 
> puzzle.
> 
> Best regards,
> Aron Stansvik
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> 
Hey Aron, list,

Sorry for a super long time in replying, my networking at home has been 
shoddy lately.  With regards to building on FreeBSD, could you have a 
look at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8298 and see if 
that patch works for you?  Also, Havoc, when you have some time, could 
you review the patch as well?  This is a different version of the patch 
that I had previously sent to the mailing list (Re: Compiling on 
FreeBSD)  Thanks!
-- Steev