build failure and fix for typo

[Adam Lackorzynski]

On Thu Jul 07, 2005 at 01:24:34 +0200, Julian Stecklina wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Jul 2005 23:21:21 +0200
> Julian Stecklina <der_julian at web.de> wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I tried to build fiasco on FreeBSD today using the following commands:
> > 
> > > cd kernel/fiasco
> > > gmake config
> > > env AWKP=awk gmake
> > 
> > I got as far as:
> > gmake srcdir=/usr/home/blitz/src/os/l4/kernel/fiasco/src -f /usr/home/
> [...]
> > registers auto/kip.cc -o kip.o In file included from auto/ kip.h:6,
> > from auto/kip.cc:3: /usr/home/blitz/src/os/l4/kernel/fiasco/ src/
> > types/types.h:4:20: stddef.h: No such file or directory
> > 
> > (some spaces have crept in due to copy&paste from xterm)
> > 
> > minilibc does not seem to provide stddef.h, so the one of the host
> > compiler is probably meant (is this correct?), but -I/usr/include//bin
> > seems kind of bogus. Has anyone an idea where to tweak this?
> 
> The bogus include directory was -I/usr/bin//include, sorry for the
> typo. It seems that the configuration process tries to locate libgcc.a
> and assumes that the directory containing this library also has gcc
> specific headers. On FreeBSD however libgcc.a is installed in the base
> system under /usr/lib and its headers are in /usr/include. A real fix
> here would be using autoconf. :-/

gcc usually installs this way and that's how it's done on any Linux
we've seen. A fix for this isn't that hard though, I guess.

> Another issue I have come across is the dependence on a non-POSIX date
> utility. I studied several man pages from different Linuxes and BSDs
> and come to the conclusion that it is quite difficult to get the file
> modification time via anything that is remotely POSIXish. The date
> command is not even uniform on all Linuxes.. I replaced the
> modification time of the config file with the current time of day...

So, is there any way of getting the modification time of a file on BSD
without coding something myself?




Adam
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