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authorJulian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org>2016-08-09 17:40:01 +0200
committerJulian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org>2016-08-10 16:17:19 +0200
commitc85c4bed0a4b32ee2dcbd86ea819e39f3d8beb84 (patch)
treebe083f5da7110e52bb540bd05722a829798d1116 /COMPILING
parentfa1b5d86bf5ba20047774014b422e7c30ee13a9c (diff)
Get rid of the old buildsystem
Bye, bye, old friend.
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-General Information
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-To compile this you need a couple things
- - A working POSIX system with working POSIX gcc, g++, make (GNU),
- ar, sh, awk and sed in the path
- - GNU Make 3.74 or so, -- normal UNIX make will NOT work
- * Note 3.77 is broken.
- - A working ANSI C++ compiler, this is not g++ 2.7.*
- g++ 2.8 works OK and newer egcs work well also. Nobody has tried it
- on other compilers :< You will need a properly working STL as well.
- - A C library with the usual POSIX functions and a BSD socket layer.
- If your OS conforms to the Single Unix Spec then you are fine:
- http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/index.html
- - Refer to the Build-Depends information in debian/control for
- additional requirements (some of which are Debian-specific)
-
-** NOTICE **
-The C++ global constructors do not link correctly when using non-shared
-libraries. This is probably the correct behavior of the linker, but I have
-not yet had time to devise a work around for it. The correct thing to
-do is add a reference to debSystem in apt-pkg/init.cc,
-assert(&debSystem == 0) would be fine for instance.
-
-Guidelines
-~~~~~~~~~~
-I am not interested in making 'ultra portable code'. I will accept patches
-to make the code that already exists conform more to SUS or POSIX, but
-I don't really care if your not-SUS OS doesn't work. It is simply too
-much work to maintain patches for dysfunctional OSs. I highly suggest you
-contact your vendor and express interest in a conforming C library.
-
-That said, there are lots of finicky problems that must be dealt with even
-between the supported OS's. Primarily the path I choose to take is to put
-a shim header file in build/include that transparently adds the required
-functionality. Patches to make autoconf detect these cases and generate the
-required shims are OK.
-
-Current shims:
- * sys/statvfs.h to convert from BSD/old-glibc statfs to SUS statvfs
- * rfc2553 hostname resolution (methods/rfc*), shims to normal gethostbyname.
- The more adventurous could steal the KAME IPv6 enabled resolvers for those
- OS's with IPv6 support but no rfc2553 (why?)
- * define _XOPEN_EXTENDED_SOURCE to bring in h_errno on HP-UX
- * socklen_t shim in netdb.h if the OS does not have socklen_t
-
-The only completely non-shimmed OS is Linux with glibc2.1, glibc2.0 requires
-the first three shims.
-
-Platform Notes
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-Debian GNU Linux 2.1 'slink'
-Debian GNU Linux 'potato'
-Debian GNU Linux 'woody'
- * All Archs
- - Works flawlessly
- - You will want to have docbook-xml and docbook2man installed to get
- best results.
- - No IPv6 Support in glibc's < 2.1.
-
-Sun Solaris
- SunOS cab101 5.7 Generic_106541-04 sun4u sparc
- SunOS csu201 5.8 Generic_108528-04 sun4u sparc
- - Works fine
- - Note, no IPv6 Support, OS lacks RFC 2553 hostname resolution
-
-OpenBSD
- OpenBSD gsb086 2.5 CMPUT#0 i386 unknown
- OpenBSD csu101 2.7 CMPUT#1 i386 unknown
- - OS needs 'ranlib' to generate the symbol table after 'ar'.. (not using
- GNU ar with the gnu tool chain :<)
- - '2.5' does not have RFC 2553 hostname resolution, but '2.7' does
- - Testing on '2.7' suggests the OS has a bug in its handling of
- ftruncate on files that have been written via mmap. It fills the page
- that crosses the truncation boundary with 0's.
-
-HP-UX
- HP-UX nyquist B.10.20 C 9000/780 2016574337 32-user license
- - Evil OS, does not conform very well to SUS
- 1) snprintf exists but is not prototyped, ignore spurious warnings
- 2) No socklen_t
- 3) Requires -D_XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED for h_errno
- configure should fix the last two (see above)
- - Note, no IPv6 Support, OS lacks RFC 2553 hostname resolution
-