Comments on pmake diffs for building on Linux

Daniel O'Connor doconnor at gsoft.com.au
Tue Mar 4 06:46:06 UTC 2008


On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> here's a set of diffs that will allow FreeBSD's usr.bin/make to build
> on Linux.  I'm sure they are gross, and I don't plan to commit them
> (at least not all of them), but I thought I'd post them here to see
> what people think.
>
> I think that the extra config.h includes, the errc -> errx patches
> and the Makefile.dist patches may be good for the tree.  The rest may
> not meet FreeBSD's source tree policies.
>
> Comments?

I did this a while ago when porting some of our code to Linux because it 
builds with pmake..

Your patches are much nicer than mine however :)

The tailq stuff could be shoved into a linux.h or some such.. So it's 
more obvious what it's for and why it's there.

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