[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#621820: xfce4-netload-plugin: FTBFS on kfreebsd-*: os.h:125:28: error: net/ppp_defs.h: No such file or directory

[Guillem Jover]

block 621820 by 577494
reassign 621820 xfce4-netload-plugin
retitle 621820 xfce4-netload-plugin: Needs to be ported from if_ppp to ppp(8) on GNU/kFreeBSD
thanks

Hi!

On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 18:54:33 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-04-25 at 23:45:00 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> > reassign 621820 kfreebsd-kernel-headers
> > 
> > On lun., 2011-04-25 at 12:28 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> > > On Linux arches net/ppp_defs.h and net/if_ppp.h are provided by
> > > libc6-dev. On kFreeBSD it's a bit different, the headers are only
> > > provided in (versioned) kfreebsd-headers-* packages, and they are
> > > located in /usr/src/kfreebsd-headers-8.2-1/sys/ 
> > > 
> > > I don't think it's a good idea to build-dep on versioned kernel
> > > headers
> > > nor passing a (versioned) -I to the build, that'd be too much trouble.
> > > 
> > > Any idea how to fix that?
> 
> > After discussing this with Cyril on irc it seems the solution might be
> > to include the relevant header files in kfreebsd-kernel-headers, so
> > reassigning.
> 
> kFreeBSD 8.0+ does not have if_ppp any longer, so this is not
> possible, the fix upstream proposes seems to be to port to ppp(8), as
> seen from the removal commit log:
> 
>   <http://www.mail-archive.com/svn-src-all@freebsd.org/msg07293.html>
> 
>   <http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ppp&sektion=8>
> 
> This bug should be reassigned back I guess.

Done so now, we don't currently have ppp for GNU/kFreeBSD yet but
once xfce4-netload-plugin gets ported to it, that would not disallow
the package from being built any longer.

regards,
guillem