Re: Improve Gnulib's ability to compile on FreeBSD

[Tom Limoncelli]

On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 9:28 AM, Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
> That doesn't help much - gnulib/lib/Makefile.am is either a generated
> file, or a wrapper around a generated gnulib.mk include snippet, and you
> didn't even tell us which project this was on, so we don't know which
> gnulib modules were in use.

Sorry for the terseness.  I'm just learning the protocol for
submitting patches here.  I should have included this diff instead:

diff --git a/modules/localcharset b/modules/localcharset
index 8d01706..f2c20b4 100644
--- a/modules/localcharset
+++ b/modules/localcharset
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ install-exec-localcharset: all-local
          case '$(host_os)' in \
            darwin[56]*) \
              need_charset_alias=true ;; \
-           darwin* | cygwin* | mingw* | pw32* | cegcc*) \
+           darwin* | cygwin* | mingw* | pw32* | cegcc* | freebsd*) \
              need_charset_alias=false ;; \
            *) \
              need_charset_alias=true ;; \

As Paul said, yes, it is in modules/localcharset.

> Can you post the actual compile failure you are seeing, and provide more
> details why adding freebsd to the list avoids the failures?

Sadly I can't reproduce the failure myself.  (It may be a lack of
understanding on my part).  This patch appeared in the list of patches
packaged with the FreeBSD port of Augeas (which depends on gnulib).
I'm not the maintainer of Augeas or the port, but I'm trying to
upstream things to make it work smoother in the future.  I may be
overstepping boundaries here.  That said, I'd appreciate the inclusion
of the patch.

Thanks!
Tom

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