On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 08:37:16PM -0600, Kyle Evans wrote: > On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 6:13 PM, David Gibson > <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 10:15:18PM -0600, kevans@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > >> This doesn't make things work out of the box necessarily, but it gets us a step > >> closer. > >> > >> - alloca(3) on FreeBSD and OpenBSD, at least, is provided as part of > >> <stdlib.h>. I make the change here for FreeBSD only, though, as I cannot test it > >> on OpenBSD. > > > > TBH, rather than dicking around with #ifdefs and headers, I'd rather > > use use malloc() instead of alloca(). > > Alrighty- I'll prepare a patch for this, knowing that's a direction > you're comfortable heading in. > > >> - stat -c %s's equivalent on FreeBSD is stat -f %Uz; these differ enough, allow > >> STATSZ in the environment to specify local replacement for a stat that outputs > >> size in bytes of an argument. > > > > Can you split this change out into a separate patch, please. > > Will do. Fwiw, some years ago I did a bunch of work to get dtc to compile and pass the tests on FreeBSD. Working out of the box on *BSD is something I'd like it to have. Unfortunately, because I can't easily test on a BSD machine, the BSD support tends to bitrot rather rapidly. -- David Gibson | I'll have my music baroque, and my code david AT gibson.dropbear.id.au | minimalist, thank you. NOT _the_ _other_ | _way_ _around_! http://www.ozlabs.org/~dgibson
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