On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 12:22:10AM -0500, Juan Fdo Gallego Gómez wrote:
> I tried to compile pppd, just a checkout from the cvs at cvs.samba.org
> What I saw was that the support for freebsd was discontinued since
> freebsd-3.0 (1999), also it patches the kernel.
Yep; as Nathan said, FreeBSD support isn't being merged into pppd because
FreeBSD people are being lazy and maintain their own pppd patches.
It must be somewhere in http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/
> cd pppd
> cp Makefile.linux Makefile.gfbsd
> vi Makefile.gfbsd (I changed sys-linux.c to sys-bsd.c)
> make -f Makefile.gfbsd
Looking at the sources, it seems the root of the configuration is in
./configure. Instead of copying the makefile, we probably can go with
fixing ./configure. It's usualy best to avoid copying files specific
to our platform, since we'd end up maintaining them ourselves.
I haven't tested this, but:
- "makext" probably means userland, so "sys-bsd.c" is highly likely to assume
FreeBSD. we have GNU userland, which is what the sources call "linux", so
we set makext="linux" (it's ugly to call it like this, but i can live with
it ;))
- "ksrc" means the obvious
The attached patch would restore generic FreeBSD|GNU/FreeBSD support in
./configure, please have it a look.
After this, you'd just need to steal the new "freebsd-5.x" directories
from FreeBSD's cvs and add them to ./configure.
> And a lot of errors about symbols explicetely defined in sys-bsd.c and
> others.
If my guess about makext is right, sys-linux.c would work for us after
getting rid of some linuxisms. (the first "#if __GLIBC__ >= 2" looks
very nice :))
> Checking the configure script at the top level seems that it patches the
> freebsd kernel (version 3 and others ancient versions).
This is getting more confusing :(. Maybe it means FreeBSD 3.x and lower
didn't support PPP natively..
Anyway, if FreeBSD 5.x supports their own PPP, their kernel must be patched
already.
--
Robert Millan
diff -ur ppp-2.4.1.uus.old/configure ppp-2.4.1.uus/configure
--- ppp-2.4.1.uus.old/configure 2000-04-24 09:41:40.000000000 +0200
+++ ppp-2.4.1.uus/configure 2003-07-02 17:27:35.000000000 +0200
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
*) ;;
esac;;
esac;;
- NetBSD|FreeBSD|ULTRIX|OSF1|NeXTStep|SINIX-?|UNIX_SV|UNIX_System_V)
+ NetBSD|ULTRIX|OSF1|NeXTStep|SINIX-?|UNIX_SV|UNIX_System_V)
state="notincluded";;
# NetBSD)
# makext="bsd";
@@ -54,15 +54,20 @@
# V4.*) state="known"; ksrc="osf1";;
# V[5-9]*) state="late"; ksrc="osf1";;
# esac;;
-# FreeBSD)
-# makext="bsd";
-# case $release in
-# 1.*) state="known"; ksrc="freebsd-old";;
-# 2.[01]*) state="known"; ksrc="freebsd-2.0";;
-# 2.2.[2-7]*) state="late"; ksrc="freebsd-2.0";;
-# 2.2.8*) state="known"; ksrc="freebsd-2.2.8";;
-# 3.[0-1]*) state="known"; ksrc="freebsd-3.0";;
-# esac;;
+ FreeBSD|GNU/FreeBSD)
+ case $system in
+ FreeBSD)
+ makext="bsd";;
+ GNU/FreeBSD)
+ makext="linux";;
+ esac
+ case $release in
+ 1.*) state="known"; ksrc="freebsd-old";;
+ 2.[01]*) state="known"; ksrc="freebsd-2.0";;
+ 2.2.[2-7]*) state="late"; ksrc="freebsd-2.0";;
+ 2.2.8*) state="known"; ksrc="freebsd-2.2.8";;
+ 3.[0-1]*) state="known"; ksrc="freebsd-3.0";;
+ esac;;
# NeXTStep)
# makext="NeXT";
# ksrc="NeXT";
