Traffic Server fails to build on kfreebsd
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Key: TS-740
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TS-740
Project: Traffic Server
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Build
Affects Versions: 2.1.7, 2.1.8
Environment: Debian kFreeBSD 6.0.1, FreeBSD kernel 8.1-1-amd64, gcc
4.4.5
Reporter: Arno Toell
Priority: Minor
Attachments: kfreebsd-build.patch
Apache Traffic Server fails to build on Debian kFreeBSD. This is because of
some special behavior when using the FreeBSD kernel with a GNU user land. In
summary, the FreeBSD build stack works very well for kfreebsd, but due to some
library incompatibilities, some slight modifications are required to get the
build working.
I propose a patch to fix this issue, I developed it for the released 2.1.7 ATS
distribution, but still succeeds on the trunk as of today with some offsests
for certain hunks. Therefore you may want to merge my changes, if you want at
all, rather soon to allow patch to find offsets while they aren't that
significant.
The patch introduces a new host operating system "kfreebsd" which is a subset
of the existing "freebsd" host definition. This is required, because the
kfreebsd architecture generally seems to work with "freebsd" quirks in existing
code, but still needs some special handling for some, rare, cases. Therefore,
when building on kfreebsd -Dfreebsd and -Dkfreebsd is set to honor this
requirements.
I briefly tested the patch for side effects on pure FreeBSD and Linux but it
seems not to affect building on those systems.
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