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20030321: 20030321: 20030314: GEMPAK and FreeBSD

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  • Subject: 20030321: 20030321: 20030314: GEMPAK and FreeBSD
  • Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 18:06:52 -0700
Neil,

The problem I had to fix with freeBSD is that the gcc would not accept malloc.h,
and instead, had to have these removed in favor of stdlin.h. I assumed it was a 
"new"
feature of gcc,  but seems like you found that it goes back at least as far as
2.95.

In the old days, all I had to do was tar up may distribution tree for the ftp 
site,
but with the web portal now, I have to modify dozens of data base entries 
(progress).
I'll make the tarfile and you can download it from the ftp site...until I get 
time
to make the portal entires.

I thought BSD was able to run Linux binaries in some compatibility mode. Is 
this true?
Or, do I need to make a new distribution category for freeBSD binaries?!

Steve Chiswell



>From: "Neil R. Smith" <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200303212216.h2LMGbB2022232

>gcc -v gives 'gcc version 2.95.4 20020320 [FreeBSD]' on our FreeBSD
>4.7-RELEASE install. Will this likely require the changes you're making
>for gcc 3.2, or should it work?
>
>You might say - "try it and see". Well I did, with the '-i' make option
>and have gotten a lot of errors and the warnings (use stdlib.h instead
>of malloc.h). A make clean, then make all without '-i' stops in the
>nxmlib where ranlib can't find $NAWIPS/lib/freebsd/Nxmlib.a.
>
>Any hope? Or should I just wait for 'J'?  
>
>Speaking of which, what's the time frame on it now? Are you still being
>called off to meetings? Tell'em I said you're excused from any further
>meetings!
>
>Thanks, -Neil
>
>On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 15:44, Unidata Support wrote:
>> 
>> Neil,
>> 
>> Thats basically it for the environment, but I had to make a bunch of
>> code changes for this release related with gcc 3.2 which our version of
>> freebsd used.
>> 
>> Steve Chiswell
>> 
>> >From: "Neil R. Smith" <address@hidden>
>> >Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>> >Keywords: 200303212059.h2LKxIB2012698
>> 
>> >Hi Steve,
>> >Since I haven't seen announcement of release J, I thought I'd have a go
>> >at building on freebsd. So the things I saw needing modifying were
>> >Gemenviron needing a 'freebsd' NA_OS switch, and then a
>> >config/Makeinc.freebsd. The Makeinc.linux file looked 'bout right so I
>> >thought I'd copy it to Makeinc.freebsd. Is this what you did?
>> >
>> >Then just 'make -i all'?
>> >
>> >Thanks, -Neil
>
>-- 
>Neil R. Smith, Comp. Sys. Mngr.                address@hidden
>Dept. Atmospheric Sci., Texas A&M Univ.        979/845-6272 FAX:979/862-4466
>