Am 05.09.2013 19:42, schrieb Julien Cristau: > On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 19:40:18 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > >> Am 05.09.2013 19:29, schrieb Julien Cristau: >>> On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 17:50:18 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: >>>> Am 05.09.2013 17:29, schrieb Robert Millan: >>>>> -#include <nlist.h> >>>>> +#include <bsd/nlist.h> >>>> >>>> Does that also work with FreeBSD so can be pushed upstream? >>>> Apparently libgtop2 has native FreeBSD support and I wonder if nslist.h >>>> is using a different location on FreeBSD. >>>> >>> In xorg-server added `pkg-config --cflags libbsd-overlay` to CPPFLAGS >>> from debian/rules. Lets the code expecting bsd headers on bsd work >>> without patching. >> >> That's confusing tbh. Why is libbsd-dev using different paths in the >> first place which requires such hacks? >> > Because the normal bsd paths would conflict with gnu libc-dev headers > (maybe not for nlist.h, but for others).
Why do libc-dev and libbsd-dev have conflicting files in the first place and why not move just the conflicting (BSD) files to bsd/ ? Apparently libgtop2 built just fine in the past with libbsd-dev, so this looks like a recent regression in that package. Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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