The list has been quiet the last couple days, so I thought I'd post some updates from my adventures with FreeBSD:
Good news: * I built my first package in the chroot. Bash was giving me problems with libreadline, so I decided to try it in the chroot, and it worked. I had to force install it though, because base-passwd isn't working yet. * Figured out how to "fix" dpkg-shlibdeps. It wanted to use ldd on shared libs, but I hacked it to get a list of libs from ldconfig -r instead. It seems to work now. * Just built a package for the FreeBSD libc. That's the first step in my multi-binary package for /usr/src. That was lots of fun... It actually seems to be working! Bad news: * utmp: just about everything that compiles against utmp.h fails. Debian tools are expecting a SysV-ish utmp, and it just isn't there. * libiberty: some of the Debian-specific packages are expecting getopt_long to be in libc. I'm temporarily using freelibiberty from the ports to get things working. Probably will need to fix configure, and possibly include the libiberty stuff into those packages. * shadow.h: FreeBSD doesn't seem to implement the standard shadow password functions in it's libc. (No getspnam and friends.) So far, I've learned that this breaks base-passwd.
