Re: [Devel] Fwd: Bug#87691: Build problem on hurd-i386

[Jeff Bailey]

On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 12:08:12AM +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote:

> > When building on hurd-i386, freetype does not correctly detect the
> > operating system as being unix-like.  This is because freetype
> > beleives that anything unix-like must have /sbin/init.  This is a
> > simple fix for this problem (all I'm doing is detecting /hurd/auth
> > instead of /sbin/init.  There may be a better way, but this way I
> > didn't have to worry about changing their code):
> 
> Are there any changes necessary to the FreeType code itself?  What
> about mmap?  If everything is similar to Unix, I strongly recommend to
> merge the `hurd' subdir with `unix'.

It's amazing where you run into the same people over and over, isn't it? =)

There were no changes to the FreeType code.  mmap is used all over the
Hurd (Internally for filesystems, etc.), so is well used.

I had chosen to make another directory because it was a very clean
patch.  The Right Way to do it is certainly to make it look for
"/sbin/init" || "/hurd/init"

Thanks!

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