[Freeswitch-users] Compiling freeswitch for Dragonfly BSD

[Michael Jerris]

On Jun 25, 2009, at 5:49 PM, Vincent wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 11:19:51PM -0400, Andrew Thompson wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 09:15:30PM -0500, Vincent Stemen wrote:
>>> Ok.  I did this.
>>>
>>> Compilation still failed but there are significant improvements  
>>> since
>>> the last time.
>>>
>>> Here is what I did and the results:
>>>
>>
>> It looks like some the games that sofia plays with errno makes  
>> Dragonfly
>> unhappy. I also noticed that where the code checks for BSD-like  
>> systems
>> (*BSD and OSX) in libsofia-sip-ua/su/sofia-sip/su_errno.h,  
>> DragonFly is
>> omitted, so obviously one of the first steps would be to fix that (if
>> applicable).
>>
>> If you disable mod_sofia in modules conf, do the rest of the default
>> modules build OK?
>
> OK.  I commented out endpoints/mod_sofia.  It looks like that  
> eliminated
> all the errors except the one I get at the end.
>
>  making all mod_spidermonkey
>  cd config; gmake -j1 export
>  cd pr; gmake -j1 export
>  cd include; gmake export
>  cd md; gmake export
>  ../../../config/./nsinstall: cannot make symbolic link /u1/falcon/ 
> ports/freeswitch-20090623/work/freeswitch-20090623/libs/js/nsprpub/ 
> dist/include/nspr/.: File exists
>  gmake[9]: *** [export] Error 1
>  gmake[8]: *** [export] Error 2
>  gmake[7]: *** [export] Error 2
>  gmake[6]: *** [export] Error 2
>  gmake[5]: *** [/u1/falcon/ports/freeswitch-20090623/work/ 
> freeswitch-20090623/libs/js/libjs.la] Error 2
>  gmake[4]: *** [all] Error 1
>  gmake[3]: *** [mod_spidermonkey-all] Error 1
>  gmake[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

you can also comment out that module and see if you get further.
>
>
> So, it looks like most all the problems, except for that symlink  
> error,
> including the pointer cast warnings, are related to the sofia module.
>
> I notice a lot of the modules seem to be redirecting the output
> somewhere.
>
> Not only do they just say Error 1 or Error 2 when there is an error,  
> they
> also do not show the compile commands.  They just output something  
> like
> "Making built-sources in su" or "Compiling src/switch_apr.c ...".  Is
> there a log file somewhere that contains the actual compile commands  
> and
> error output so you can find out what happened when there is a error?
> Or perhaps a configuration to enable it to come out on the console?

VERBOSE=1 gmake


>> For the record, DragonFly and FreeBSD have rather seriously  
>> diverged at
>> this point, DragonFly forked from FreeBSD back in the 4.10 days or so
>> and has changed a *lot* of things since, so I don't think it's  
>> gonna be
>> quite as easy as you expected (but it's far from impossible either).
>>
>> Andrew
>
> True, architecturally Dragonfly is becoming very different.  They seem
> to be trying to maintain fairly good API compatibility though.  Enough
> to constantly allow them to bring across major sub-systems, such as
> sound and SATA drivers, etc, from FreeBSD.  So far, they have been
> pretty good about correcting it as soon as possible whenever one of us
> finds an incompatibility (Such as the RLIMIT_AS issue).
>
> Usually, all I have to do is add "-D__FreeBSD__" to CFLAGS and  
> CPPFLAGS
> to compile packages that do not natively know about Dragonfly yet.
> Which is what I am doing with freeswitch.
>