Bug#196158: portability in s-s-d

[Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es>]

retitle 196158 [ARCH] portability in start-stop-daemon
thanks

Hi!

I had a look at getting s-s-d properly ported for freebsd-i386, but I'm
getting into trouble due to the way portability is handled in s-s-d.

In our case, we want FreeBSD-style /procfs, but the C library is Glibc. So
if we match the generic FreeBSD rule that brings us BSD libc headers (and
specific functions) which we don't have.

I'm thinking on rewriting the portability detection in S-S-D for using autoconf
checks and detecting each feature specificaly. If you want, I can do that and
send a patch. I understand that this could possibly break things, so I'd rather
wait untill the Sarge release is finished.

In the meantime, please apply my other patch for triplet handling:

  #211566: dpkg: triplet fixes for "freebsd-i386"

-- 
Robert Millan

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