| 1 | FreeBSD notes |
| 2 | |
| 3 | The build tree for Dolda Connect is not very portable at the moment, |
| 4 | but work is under way to fix that. For now, at least the daemon should |
| 5 | be possible to build on FreeBSD (though the ability to run it is not |
| 6 | guaranteed ;), but even that requires some special care. Eventually, |
| 7 | all this should be fixed. |
| 8 | |
| 9 | For SVN/GIT users |
| 10 | |
| 11 | First of all, if you have gotten this copy of Dolda Connect through |
| 12 | Subversion or git, you would normally need to run the `bootstrap' |
| 13 | script to create the `configure' script. However, it does not work in |
| 14 | FreeBSD, since the FreeBSD configuration of aclocal is a bit broken. |
| 15 | Instead, you will need to run the following commands manually: |
| 16 | |
| 17 | $ autopoint |
| 18 | $ aclocal -I m4 -I /usr/local/share/aclocal |
| 19 | $ autoheader |
| 20 | $ libtoolize --copy --force |
| 21 | $ automake --add-missing --copy |
| 22 | $ autoconf |
| 23 | |
| 24 | Note, also, that FreeBSD does not install version-number free aliases |
| 25 | of these commands, so the appropriate versions must be added, which is |
| 26 | easily done with the help of tab completion. |
| 27 | |
| 28 | Of course, none of the above is required for the tarball copies of |
| 29 | Dolda Connect, which already have these steps completed for you. |
| 30 | |
| 31 | For everyone |
| 32 | |
| 33 | When compiling Dolda Connect, there are also some caveats. FreeBSD's |
| 34 | libc does not have an implementation of the iconv(3) functions, and |
| 35 | Dolda Connect's `configure' script cannot detect that automatically, |
| 36 | yet. |
| 37 | |
| 38 | Also, Dolda Connect uses a lot of libraries that are located in |
| 39 | /usr/local/lib, but by default, the FreeBSD linker does not look for |
| 40 | libraries there. |
| 41 | |
| 42 | Therefore, the linker must be passed the arguments `-L/usr/local/lib |
| 43 | -liconv' to compile Dolda Connect. The easiest way to do that is to |
| 44 | pass it via the `configure' script, like this: |
| 45 | |
| 46 | $ ./configure other_args... "LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib -liconv" |
| 47 | |
| 48 | You may or may not also want to pass `CFLAGS=-g' as well, to ease any |
| 49 | debugging. |