On Wed, Jan 03, 2018 at 10:51:23AM -0600, Rob Herring wrote: > On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 9:55 PM, David Gibson > <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 09:29:14PM -0600, Kyle Evans wrote: > >> On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 8:58 PM, David Gibson > >> <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > 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. > >> > >> > >> Happy to hear this. =) You're not too far off, fortunately. > > > > Good to hear. > > > >> This, the > >> alloca header situation, and an -ldl in tests/Makefile.tests are the > >> only obstacles to being able to do a simple "gmake && gmake check" > >> here. I've submitted patches for the first two, and as of r320872 [1] > >> we provide a libdl on -HEAD. > > > > Ok sounds good. I had a look at the tests using -ldl and it looks > > like they couldn't easily be adapted to avoid it. However, I'd be ok > > with logic to skip those tests if libdl isn't available, if you want > > to broaden support to older releases. > > > > At the moment dtc seems to be just teetering on the edge of being > > complex enough to need some sort of configuration system (whether it > > be hand-rolled scripts, autoconf or whatever). So far I've been > > avoiding adding such a thing, because that introduces a bunch of > > problems of its own: hand rolled scripts are a pain to maintain, > > autoconf is ugly as sin, pretty much anything else is nonstandard and > > liable to introduce a bunch of extra dependencies. But, I might have > > to bite the bullet at some point. > > What about meson? All the cool kids are using it now. Heh, hadn't heard of that one. Too busy maintaining vital infrastructure to follow what the cool kids are doing. -- 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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