OS check fails on JDK 1.4 & FreeBSD 5.4R

[Greg Lewis]

On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 11:51:00PM -0400, Scott I. Remick wrote:
> check-os:
> .if !defined(SKIP_OS_TEST)
>         - at mkdir -p ${WRKDIR} ; \
>         rm -f ${WRKDIR}/${TESTPROG} ; \
>         gcc ${LINKIT} -o ${WRKDIR}/${TESTPROG} \
>                 ${FILESDIR}/${TESTPROG}.c > /dev/null 2>&1
>         @if [ ! -f ${WRKDIR}/${TESTPROG} ] ; \
>         then \
>         /usr/bin/printf "\n\
> You must have a version of FreeBSD later than 4.7-STABLE\n\
> February 2003 or 5-CURRENT February 2003 to compile and\n\
> use JDK 1.4.2.\n\n" ; \
>         exit 1 ; \
>         fi
>         @${WRKDIR}/${TESTPROG} 2>/dev/null
> .endif
> 
> From that it suggests defining SKIP_OS_TEST=1 should bypass it but instead
> of cheating I'd rather find out what's wrong with my system to cause the
> test to fail.

So, if you manually do (in the jdk14 directory)

gcc -lc_r -o work/testos files/testos.c

(You may need to manually create the work directory if you've done a
 "make clean")

What happens?  The only way the test can fail is if you can't compile
that programme.

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