Re: [PATCH] Improve compatibility with other platforms

[David Gibson <david-xT8FGy+AXnRB3Ne2BGzF6laj5H9X9Tb+@public.gmane.org>]

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On Wed, Jan 03, 2018 at 10:51:23AM -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 9:55 PM, David Gibson
> <david-xT8FGy+AXnRB3Ne2BGzF6laj5H9X9Tb+@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 09:29:14PM -0600, Kyle Evans wrote:
> >> On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 8:58 PM, David Gibson
> >> <david-xT8FGy+AXnRB3Ne2BGzF6laj5H9X9Tb+@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> >> > Fwiw, some years ago I did a bunch of work to get dtc to compile and
> >> > pass the tests on FreeBSD.  Working out of the box on *BSD is
> >> > something I'd like it to have.  Unfortunately, because I can't easily
> >> > test on a BSD machine, the BSD support tends to bitrot rather rapidly.
> >>
> >>
> >> Happy to hear this. =) You're not too far off, fortunately.
> >
> > Good to hear.
> >
> >> This, the
> >> alloca header situation, and an -ldl in tests/Makefile.tests are the
> >> only obstacles to being able to do a simple "gmake && gmake check"
> >> here. I've submitted patches for the first two, and as of r320872 [1]
> >> we provide a libdl on -HEAD.
> >
> > Ok sounds good.  I had a look at the tests using -ldl and it looks
> > like they couldn't easily be adapted to avoid it.  However, I'd be ok
> > with logic to skip those tests if libdl isn't available, if you want
> > to broaden support to older releases.
> >
> > At the moment dtc seems to be just teetering on the edge of being
> > complex enough to need some sort of configuration system (whether it
> > be hand-rolled scripts, autoconf or whatever).  So far I've been
> > avoiding adding such a thing, because that introduces a bunch of
> > problems of its own: hand rolled scripts are a pain to maintain,
> > autoconf is ugly as sin, pretty much anything else is nonstandard and
> > liable to introduce a bunch of extra dependencies.  But, I might have
> > to bite the bullet at some point.
> 
> What about meson? All the cool kids are using it now.

Heh, hadn't heard of that one.  Too busy maintaining vital
infrastructure to follow what the cool kids are doing.

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