Re: [VANILLA-LIST:2351] Compile problems on FreeBSD

[Dave Ahn <ahn@vec.wfubmc.edu>]

On Sun, Jun 13, 1999 at 02:21:08PM -0400, Eric Frias wrote:
> 
> tools/update.c(193): in no_zombies().  FreeBSD's struct sigaction doesn't
> have a member called sa_sigaction or sa_restorer.  It does, however, have
> the flag SA_NOCLDWAIT.

The code segment above line 193 contains #ifdefs to ensure that the
sa_restorer define is set only if the machine is linux.  I've test compiled
these changes on a FreeBSD machine before and ran into no problems.

To tell you the truth, I'm leaning towards removing it completely since
RedHat 5.x and above do have SA_NOCLDWAIT.

> On my FreeBSD system, and probably most others, the standard BSD 'make' is
> in /usr/bin/make, and the GNU 'make' is /usr/local/bin/gmake, if

This problem probably stems from the changes Bob Tanner made to gnumake-ify
the makefiles.  I did undo some of those changes for it to be compatible
with make(1), but FreeBSD may have some additional compatibility problems.
I wonder why I didn't run across them during the test compiles...

> and remove the line 'MAKE = make' in system.mk. That way, you can just run
> gmake in the top-level directory and it will always call whatever
> make the top-level makefile was invoked with for subdirectories, instead
> of calling whatever 'make' is in the path.

This is the proper way to handle recursive makes with arbitrary make
versions.

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