[1897] in NetBSD-Development
Problems building SIPB-Athena on a -current ELF system
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles M. Hannum)
Fri Aug 6 02:29:17 1999
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 02:29:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Charles M. Hannum" <root@ihack.net>
To: netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU
First, there are the problems with the build system in general. The
documentation (such as it is) fails to mention a few important things:
1) build.sh needs a `-l' option; it loses without it. (The `exec' on
line 113 blows up because $logfile is empty.)
2) When building directly in a checked out CVS tree, you need to give
`-c' to do.sh; this option is likewise not mentioned anywhere.
3) The `-b' option to do.sh is not mentioned; nor is it mentioned that
build.sh also accepts `-s' and `-d'.
Also:
4) discuss needs to be installed before olc is built, so the configure
script can find dspipe, but this is not the order they're done in
normally.
Some other things I had to kluge:
5) third/afsbin has some prebuilt executables and libraries in it,
which I had to update from my ELF AFS build tree.
6) third/bind loses due to some IPv6 structures being defined in two
places. I kluged this by ripping out the HAS_INET6_STRUCTS section
in bind/src/port/netbsd/include/port_after.h, but there's probably
a prettier way.
7) third/kpasswd decides to use /usr/include/kerberosIV, rather than
/.srvd/usr/athena/include/kerberosIV, and loses because
KADM_INSECURE_PW isn't defined in the NetBSD native version. (Lots
of other programs use the wrong include directory, but for the most
part they seem to at least compile.)
8) third/sendmail fails to compile because everything is linked with
libwrap.so, and {deny,allow}_severity is undefined. Only the
sendmail executable should link with -lwrap.
Also, there's the make vs. gmake lossage, which I believe Greg
knows about.
And there are the things I haven't fixed:
9) third/bash and third/ispell fail to build completely because of
makeinfo lossage. (third/bash fails -I the readline/doc directory,
and can't some files. third/ispell just has an improperly formed
Texinfo file.)
10) The usual krb5 DB lossage, which causes at least /bin/athena/login
to lose, because it can't read the passwd database.
11) third/ssh (gmp), third/motif, third/emacs and third/perl need
various updates to work with ELF. (The third/ssh failure just
causes it to not use the assembly code, which is non-fatal.)
These are the errors I was actually expecting and planned to fix.
Everything else built as expected, although there are almost certainly
some rpath issues that need to be addressed.
