Re: trying to build synopsis for FreeBSD 4.7

Hi Vicki,

Vicki Brown wrote:

> At 10:47 -0700 8/17/04, Vicki Brown wrote:

> I've received some great help from the FreeBSD porters folks.
Specifically:
>
>     1) use GCC 3.1 or above (FreeBSD 4.7 shipped with gcc 2.95) - I knew
this
>     already from discussing with you
>
>     2) in synopsis-0.7/Synopsis/Parsers/Cpp/ucpp/eval.c:78 you have to
check for
>     FreeBSD as well (to get ulong typedef'ed). Add
>          '|| defined(__FreeBSD__)'
>
>     We had worked this out already

yes, and it's fixed in the repository. 
(http://synopsis.fresco.org/viewsvn/synopsis-Synopsis?view=rev&rev=1347)

>     4) on fbsd4 you have to link with '-pthread' instead of '-lpthread'.
>     interesting...

gcc supports the '-pthread' option on *some* platforms, and it will (as per
gcc spec file) map to various compiler and linker flags, which are, too, 
platform dependent.

I'll replace the -lpthread flag from the Makefile(s) and instead put
-pthread into the configure.ac files.

> One of the porters created a FreeBSD port, another sent a patch file.

a synopsis patch ? Could you forward it please ?

> I'm still having some trouble using gcc 3.1.1 but things have gotten much
farther.

Excellent !

I'll set up FreeBSD on my home machine sometime soon, then I can help you
better,
I hope...

Regards,
		Stefan