Re: Autoconf build targets
On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 02:05:47PM -0400, Nathan Hawkins wrote:
>
> Looked like a bourne shell to me. Default root shell is /bin/csh on
> FreeBSD, but I believe /bin/sh is basically the same as ash.
> Interestingly, MAKEDEV fails to work with bash but works fine with ash.
Weird. Have you tried with the ash from Debian? Could you paste the lines
failing and error from MAKEDEV?
> sh is one of the tools it needs to build the source. There are several
> others:
>
> skaro:/# ls /usr/bsd/bin
> byacc gcov kas kgdb kranlib make patch yacc
> colldef gensetdefs kc++filt kld kreadelf mkdep sh
> yyfix
> compile_et install kcc knm ksize mknod tcsh
> csh kaddr2line kcpp kobjcopy kstrings mktemp tsort
> find kar kgasp kobjdump kstrip objformat xargs
>
> And yes, all of these are things for which I can't presently substitute
> the regular versions of these from Debian packages. :(
>
> Several of the tools are there because they have incompatible options to
> GNU versions. find and install for example. Others are apparently
> BSD-specific, like gensetdefs or compile_et.
I think at least we should have a compatible install, csh, tcsh, make
(pmake package) and sh in Debian.
But of course you've convinced me that /usr/bsd is necessary for some
time ;)
--
Robert Millan
"5 years from now everyone will be running
free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5"
Andrew S. Tanenbaum, 30 Jan 1992
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