bugfix: build.sh cross-compile on NetBSD host

[Nishimura Toru]

Hi,

Minix3 cross-compile fails when it's tried on NetBSD host.  The fix was found

a plain one-liner.

===================================================================

RCS file: tools/compat/RCS/configure,v

retrieving revision 1.1

diff -r1.1 tools/compat/configure

1872c1872

< #ifdef __minix

---

> #if defined(__minix) || defined(__NetBSD__)

===================================================================

With the fix above, "build.sh ... distribution" is now successful for me;

make distribution started at:  Thu Sep  5 22:07:42 JST 2013

make distribution finished at: Thu Sep  5 22:29:34 JST 2013

===> Successful make distribution

===> build.sh ended:      Thu Sep  5 22:29:34 JST 2013

===> Summary of results:

         build.sh command:    ./build.sh -m i386 -u -U -T /home/nisimura/Minix-HEAD/tools -D /home/nisimura/Minix-HEAD/build/i386/root -R /home/nisimura/Minix-HEAD/build/i386/release -O /home/nisimura/Minix-HEAD/build/i386/obj distribution

         build.sh started:    Thu Sep  5 22:07:42 JST 2013

         MINIX version:       3.2.1

         MACHINE:             i386

         MACHINE_ARCH:        i386

         Build platform:      NetBSD 6.0.1 i386

         HOST_SH:             /bin/sh

         TOOLDIR path:        /home/nisimura/Minix-HEAD/tools

         DESTDIR path:        /home/nisimura/Minix-HEAD/build/i386/root

         RELEASEDIR path:     /home/nisimura/Minix-HEAD/build/i386/release

         Updated makewrapper: /home/nisimura/Minix-HEAD/tools/bin/nbmake-i386

         Successful make distribution

         build.sh ended:      Thu Sep  5 22:29:34 JST 2013

===> .

[Lionel Sambuc]

Hi,


I am testing your patch, and I will submit it as soon as I have
reproduced your result.

You can see the patch I am testing here:
http://git.minix3.org/?p=minix-lionel.git;a=commitdiff;h=eabd2931520ec87efb33b58f876d8a3e53516714

Do not hesitate to comment about it, this is your patch.

Thank you for this contribution!


Regards,

Lionel

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[Nishimura Toru]

Thank you for the prompt response.

A bit more about the problem.  Without the fix mentioned earlier

configure generates incorrect "nbtool_config.h" in tools/compat/

directory.  Because it contains the wrong set of #define lines, it

ends up with compile errors; the first one will be "getopt_long.c"

Toru Nishimura / ALKYL Technology

[Antoine LECA]

Nishimura Toru wrote:
> Minix3 cross-compile fails when it's tried on NetBSD host. The fix was
> found a plain one-liner.
>
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: tools/compat/RCS/configure,v
> retrieving revision 1.1
> diff -r1.1 tools/compat/configure
> 1872c1872
> < #ifdef __minix
> ---
>> #if defined(__minix) || defined(__NetBSD__)
> ===================================================================

I submitted a similar patch (OK, more complex since I also fixed the
text message, patched configure.ac from which this file is derived) in

https://github.com/antoineL/minix/commit/x-netbsd

(which you are welcome to test and comment upon), also part of

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/minix3/7eoCX1CEJpQ/E1p-Sv9WekcJ
https://github.com/antoineL/minix/commits/WRK0408e

but (AFAIK) it is not yet entered in the submission queue.

I was told, or at least I understood, that cross-compiling from NetBSD
hosts was less useful than from Linux and MacOS and FreeBSD, all kind of
hosts are OK to date; in other words, that I was the unique user; so I
welcome you as the 2nd person which is using NetBSD as cross-compilation
base! :-)


Antoine

[Nishimura Toru]

> but (AFAIK) it is not yet entered in the submission queue. 
> I was told, or at least I understood, that cross-compiling from NetBSD
> hosts was less useful than from Linux and MacOS and FreeBSD,

Well, it makes no sense. I have been a NetBSD developer for 10+ years

of MIPS / PPC / ARM and am quite accustomed with build.sh  I'm suspicious

the intent is to exclude the real NetBSD to use. :-)

[Nataraj S Narayan]

Hi

I too am most at home with NetBSD, when the Arch linux and PCBSD give me hiccups at the inopportune moments. I find solace on the NetBSD installation. 

Yeah, perhaps a sinister intent to exclude, even when so much has been adopted from NetBSD for minix3.

regards

Nataraj

2013/9/6 Nishimura Toru <tsle...@gmail.com>

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[Lionel Sambuc]

Hi Nishimura,


Your patch has been merged mainline.


Regards.

[Ben Gras]

Settle down guys, it's collateral damage from getting things to build Minix at all.

Of course we want to be able to build Minix from as many systems as possible, that's the whole point of adopting the NetBSD build system in the first place.

Thanks for the fix tot he original poster, it's great!