Re: Building netbsd-5 on OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)

[Matthias Scheler <tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost>]

On 25 Dec 2009, at 23:19, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> The following workarounds and patch come *close* to allowing building
> the netbsd-5 branch on OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard):

All which is necessary on my system is to apply this patch:

Index: tools/compat/compat_defs.h
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/src/tools/compat/compat_defs.h,v
retrieving revision 1.67.2.1
diff -u -r1.67.2.1 compat_defs.h
--- tools/compat/compat_defs.h  15 Jan 2009 04:32:35 -0000      1.67.2.1
+++ tools/compat/compat_defs.h  20 Dec 2009 20:00:17 -0000
@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@
 #include <sys/stat.h>
 #include <errno.h>
 #include <fcntl.h>
-#include <grp.h>
 #include <limits.h>
 #include <paths.h>
 #include <stdarg.h>
@@ -76,6 +75,9 @@
 /* We don't include <pwd.h> here, so that "compat_pwd.h" works. */
 struct passwd;
 
+/* We don't include <grp.h> here, so that "compat_pwd.h" works. */
+struct group;
+
 /* Assume an ANSI compiler for the host. */
 
 #undef __P

I can build a full NetBSD/i386 from both the "netbsd-5" and "netbsd-5-0" 
branches
afterwards without setting any environment variables (on a 64bit host!).

I've already submitted this patch to release engineering.

        Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                           http://zhadum.org.uk/