Re: building on freeBSD

> On May 23, 2026, at 1:33=E2=80=AFPM, Philipp =
<[email protected]> wrote:
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> Hi
>=20
> When building on FreeBSD you need additional LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS =
which
> includes the localbase. For simpler setup the configure.ac contains
> a check for FreeBSD and adds the localbase to the compiler flags.
>=20
> The problem is the command to find the localbase assumes the portstree
> is availible. When the portstree is not availible the configure script
> fails while checking for connect.
>=20
> So the command is:
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>> echo '.include <bsd.port.mk>' | make -k -f /dev/stdin -V LOCALBASE
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> and gives following output on my machine:
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>> make: /usr/share/mk/bsd.port.mk:27: Cannot open =
/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk
>> in /dev/stdin:1
>> make: Fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
>> make: stopped in /home/satanist
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> /home/satanist is my home directory. Only the last line is written to
> stdout and the exitcode is 1.
>=20
> I have some ideas how to fix this:
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> * only output a warning when FreeBSD is detected
> * fallback to /usr/local/ when the command fails
> * remove the special handling completly
> * add a specia --localbase to configure when run on *BSD
>=20
> I have no idea what the best way is to fix this.

What about just creating /usr/port/Mk/* ?
I just did that (unmounted /usr/port and added the above dir)
and ./configure completed fine.=