Re: pkgsrc on Haiku?

[Alistair Crooks <agc%pkgsrc.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 10:04:20PM +0900, OBATA Akio wrote:
> I'm succeed to bootstrap pkgsrc on Haiku OS now :)
> 
> Summary:
>  * need gcc4, or failed in system header files with "-Werror -Wshadow",
>    so I've switched to gcc4 with "/bin/setgcc gcc4".
>  * let to know about Haiku to bootstrap and bmake.
>  * create mk/platform/Haiku.mk, mk/tools/tools.Haiku.mk,
>    pkgtools/bootstrap-mk-files/files/mods/Haiku.{bsd.lib,sys}.mk
>    based on Linux's one.
>  * update config.{guess,sub} in packages built in bootstrap,
>    from mk/gnu-config/.
>  * bmake require ar.h in arch.c, but not in Haiku OS,
>    so just copy from NetBSD's one and put it in bmake/files as nbar.h,
>    patched to include it if !HAVE_AR_H.
>  * let to know configure.ac in libnbcompat and pkg_install that
>    socket functions are in -lnetwork, then autoconf.
>  * apply one patch to libarchive taken from upstream r1553.
>  * currently, Haiku OS does not support hard link,
>    so replace "${LN} -f" in mk/wrapper/bsd.wrapper.mk with "${LN} -sf".

Excellent news - this is way cool!

I'd like to finish off the pkgsrc-2009Q4 branch, and then get the Haiku
support into the infrastructure ASAP after the branch.

Thanks, Obata-san.

Best,
Alistair