Re: Bug#730833: u-boot: FTBFS on kfreebsd
On 18/02/2014 19:11, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> Looking for help from the *bsd porters on this... We haven't seen a
> successful build of u-boot on kfreebsd since mid-2012...
>
> The short of it is a bunch of header files that aren't present on Debian
> GNU/kFreeBSD are required for building u-boot-tools. Upstream u-boot has
> essentially copied a bunch of header files from linux sources. The current
> best patch we have is to copy *more* header files, but this seems like a bad
> idea... Droppping u-boot-tools on kfreebsd-* would be a regression from wheezy.
Are you sure u-boot is supposed to build on anything other than Linux? The kind
of software package that embeds copies of Linux headers is not generally
intended to be portable...
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Robert Millan
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