Re: tlsdate port to NetBSD?

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 11:16:24AM +0200, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 08:09:56AM +0000, Jacob Appelbaum wrote:
> > I've recently been working on porting my tlsdate (
> > https://github.com/ioerror/tlsdate ) program to various operating
> > systems. NetBSD is one such system that I'd like to ensure is working
> > before I tag my next release (0.0.7). The port to FreeBSD 10-CURRENT
> > (and OS X 10.8.x) seems to work for a few users and thus I think most of
> > the BSD heavy lifting should be handled.
> > 
> > I suspect the specific build conditions that check for FreeBSD could
> > easily modified to also check for NetBSD. With such a change, I guess it
> > could work out of the box. Ideally, I'd like to explicitly support
> > NetBSD and not just accidentally support it as a side effect of
> > supporting FreeBSD.
> 
> Thank you :)
> 
> > I wonder if the best bet is to pick NetBSD 6.0.1-RC2 and then work on a
> > pkgsrc targeting the current git tip of tlsdate master?
> 
> Sounds good.
> 
> > If anyone has already managed to port tlsdate to NetBSD, I'd love to
> > know before I set out to port it. :)
> 
> I've just tried the git version on NetBSD-current with some packages
> installed.
> 
> git clone https://github.com/ioerror/tlsdate
> autoreconf -fiv
> ./configure
> (output attached)
> make
> 
> and wondered that the make output is so small:
> make  all-am
>   CCLD     src/compat/libtlsdate_compat.la

Usually that's a sign that the (generated) Makefile uses some gmake-isms.
Have you tried using gmake?
 
Best,
Alistair

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