Hi Kurt, Aurelien, * Kurt Roeckx wrote on Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 04:37:09PM CET: > > I've attached 2 patches that should get kfreebsd*-gnu and > knetbsd*-gnu support, or more in general k*bsd*-gnu support > working properly.
Was it broken before (honest question)? > k*bsd behaves like Linux, but with a bsd kernel. They have a gnu > libc, gnu binutils, ... Some of the things currently in libtool.m4 > are actually for the case they wouldn't be using gnu ld, and > therefor break. They mostly seem to have problem with the > kfreebsd-amd64 port. > > The patch changed (almost) everything to do the same as on Linux. > It's based on a patch provided by Aurelien Jarno. I've made a > patch for both the 1.5 branch and 2.0. The patches look fine to me, but they change how a number of things work on kfreebsd*-gnu and knetbsd*-gnu. Is it right that Debian is still basically the only producer of such a system, and that you are needing the changes anyway, so a flag day is a non issue? > One thing I have to wonder about is they need to set LD in > _LT_AC_LOCK for arches that support 64 bit. What's the gist of this comment? (Except for that the name _LT_AC_LOCK is exceptionally stupid, granted ;-) Cheers, Ralf
