Re: tlsdate port to NetBSD?

Thomas Klausner:
> 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 :)

As of 4b25b76 in
https://github.com/ioerror/tlsdate/commit/4b25b76e03b5830c8f340b4d54409d3a205329fa
I've added NetBSD support.

> 
>> 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.
> 

I'll try this later this weekend.

>> 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

So I've got it building now from a tar.gz produced from another
machine's ``make dist`` tar.gz.

I'm still having some automake/autoconf/autotools issues - what is it
that the Germans say? Die autotools? My thoughts exactly...

Basically, I get this if I try to run ./autogen.sh:

autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
autoreconf: running: aclocal --force -I m4
configure.ac:17: warning: AC_LANG_CONFTEST: no AC_LANG_SOURCE call
detected in body
../../lib/autoconf/lang.m4:193: AC_LANG_CONFTEST is expanded from...
../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2661: _AC_LINK_IFELSE is expanded from...
../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2678: AC_LINK_IFELSE is expanded from...
m4/libtool.m4:1022: _LT_SYS_MODULE_PATH_AIX is expanded from...
m4/libtool.m4:4170: _LT_LINKER_SHLIBS is expanded from...
m4/libtool.m4:5253: _LT_LANG_C_CONFIG is expanded from...
m4/libtool.m4:138: _LT_SETUP is expanded from...
m4/libtool.m4:67: LT_INIT is expanded from...
configure.ac:17: the top level
configure.ac:17: warning: AC_LANG_CONFTEST: no AC_LANG_SOURCE call
detected in body
../../lib/autoconf/lang.m4:193: AC_LANG_CONFTEST is expanded from...
../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2661: _AC_LINK_IFELSE is expanded from...
../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2678: AC_LINK_IFELSE is expanded from...
m4/libtool.m4:4170: _LT_LINKER_SHLIBS is expanded from...
m4/libtool.m4:5253: _LT_LANG_C_CONFIG is expanded from...
m4/libtool.m4:138: _LT_SETUP is expanded from...
m4/libtool.m4:67: LT_INIT is expanded from...
configure.ac:17: the top level
aclocal: error: /usr/pkg/bin/autom4te failed with exit status: 1
autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 1

As it now works from a release tar.gz, I feel a less pressure to fix
those issues today. Help on this front would be welcome, otherwise, I'll
try to fix it later this weekend or next week.

All the best,
Jacob

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