Re: [PATCH] Reimplement 10_freebsd.in using 10_linux.in

[Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>]

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 04:27:51PM +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> >> 1) stat and readlink are different. Does anyone have an idea how to
> >> make scripts always use right syntax?
> >
> > AFAIK a custom autoconf snippet is the only way.
> I would prefer it to be done on runtime if possible.

Why?

> >  Do you know how to reliably
> > identify GNU-incompatible readlink?
> Perhaps "readlink --version | head -n 1 |grep GNU" ?

It's better to check for features, but if we have to check for vendor, there's
_AC_PATH_PROG_FLAVOR_GNU.

> > I'm not sure what "readlink -f /" will do
> > on FreeBSD.
> >
> It complains about unknown option.

Does it exit non-zero?  Then the check is simple.

> >> -  if path=`readlink -f $path` ; then : ; else
> >> +  if path=`realpath $path` ; then : ; else
> >
> > Note that this introduces an external dependency on GNU systems (readlink is
> > part of coreutils), which better be avoided (specially since the version of
> > realpath commonly used there has a problematic license).
> >
> On FreeBSD it's a part of base system AFAIR. GNU readlink is available
> through ports but is named greadlink. Perhaps we should try in script
> first realpath and if it's not found try readlink?

I was concerned about the other realpath, usually found in GNU/Linux
distributions.  Anyway, we could check greadlink, then readlink and
then realpath.

> >> 3) Version isn't detected correctly.
> >
> > Since this part is not in your patch, can you explain the problem?
> >
> I haven't looked in it but I guess the problem is that the kernel is
> named just "kernel" with no version string.

Oh, right.

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