On 18 January 2017 at 11:01, David Wolfskill wrote: | On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 04:05:16PM -0800, David Wolfskill wrote: | > [The R "openssl" package didn't build under FreeBSD for me....] | > ... | > gcc49 -std=gnu99 -I/usr/local/lib/R/include -DNDEBUG -DLIBICONV_PLUG -I/usr/local/include -isystem /usr/local/include -fpic -O2 -pipe -DLIBICONV_PLUG -fstack-protector -Wl,-rpath=/usr/local/lib/gcc49 -isystem /usr/local/include -fno-strict-aliasing -flto -c ssl.c -o ssl.o | > ssl.c: In function 'R_download_cert': | > ssl.c:41:21: error: 'PF_UNSPEC' undeclared (first use in this function) | > hints.ai_family = PF_UNSPEC; | > ^ | > ssl.c:41:21: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in | > *** Error code 1 | > .... | | It turns out that in FreeBSD (possibly also in other BSD-derived | environments), PF_UNSPEC is defined (in /usr/include/sys/socket.h), but | only if "__BSD_VISIBLE" is true:
[good detective work omitted] | And it appears that the local sources are ephemeral, so I can't | readily patch those sources to see if I can get it to work (as the | patched sources wouldn't be used) -- unless I miss the mark.... | | Any suggestions for how I might proceed? I don't follow. Can you not use 'diff' and 'patch'? I am so old that I have tar xvzf foo_1.2.3.tar.gz mv foo foo.orig tar xvzf foo_1.2.3.tar.gz cd foo /* now do your work */ cd .. && diff -ru foo.orig foo > foo.patch fairly deeply engrained in muscle memory. And R itself is in pretty tip-top shape and will listen to 'configure; make; make install'. You probably can even skip make install as you are "just" fighting a failure to build. Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
