In browsing through the old, open, PRs I found misc/18466 (from May, 2000). It's got the potential to be a source of substantial confusion, so it seems to be worth addressing.
The fix seems trivial, and I've attached a very simple patch to sysinstall.h that should fix the problem. I'm relatively sure there are other, preferred ways of fixing the issue, and I'd be more than happy to see some feedback. - Jeff Jirsa -- ============== Jeff Jirsa [EMAIL PROTECTED] HMC 2003 ==============
--- sysinstall.h.orig Sun Feb 9 15:02:25 2003 +++ sysinstall.h Mon Feb 10 11:06:54 2003 @@ -72,7 +72,13 @@ #endif /* device limits */ -#define DEV_NAME_MAX 64 /* The maximum length of a device name */ + /* The maximum length of a device name */ + +#if (__FreeBSD_version < 500000 && defined _POSIX_PATH_MAX) +#define DEV_NAME_MAX _POSIX_PATH_MAX +#else +#define DEV_NAME_MAX 64 +#endif + #define DEV_MAX 100 /* The maximum number of devices we'll deal with */ #define INTERFACE_MAX 50 /* Maximum number of network interfaces we'll deal with */ #define IO_ERROR -2 /* Status code for I/O error rather than normal EOF */
