GNU/FreeBSD source pieces

This directory contains some sources and patches that I use for my port of glibc to FreeBSD. Here is the raw directory listing: ls -l and ls -lrt.

config-accepted-diffs is a patch to config..guess, config.sub. It has already been accepted (see ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/config/), but is here so you can easily patch autoconfiguring packages.

glibc-20021003-diffs and glibc-20021003-diffs.tgz. These diffs are relative to a CVS glibc snapshot glibc-20021003.tar.bz2, which is effectively identical to glibc-2.3 with glibc-linuxthreads-2.3 add-on Look at the sysdeps/unix/bsd/bsd4.4/freebsd/README file. Also pick one of two kernel-includes packages that matches your kernel version:

kernel-include-4.0.tar.gz
kernel-include-4.6.tar.gz
After unpacking a kernel includes package, you need to cd into it and run "./patchit" once.

binutils-2.13.90.0.4-diffs or binutils-2.12.90.0.14-diffs is a patch, relative to the Linux binutils found on ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/devel/. It has been accepted into the CVS binutils.

gcc-3.2-diffs is a patch, relative to the official gcc-3.2 (yes you need gcc-3.2 now - this version of glibc refuses to compile with gcc <= 3.1).

gnu-port is the list of steps I'm making to rebuild the system from source on i386.

gnu-alpha-port [OUTDATED] is the list of steps I'm making to crosscompile a glibc from source for alpha.

glibc-port [OUTDATED] is a set of personal notes I make during the glibc port.

The glibc port currently compiles fine for i386 and alpha, and passes "make check" for i386, except for 3 test failures (tst-dir.c - rewinddir problem, linuxthreads/ex10 - strange crash, some mtrace thing - __cxa_atexit problem).

I use FreeBSD 4.0, and the kernel-includes come from this version and from FreeBSD 4.6.

Upgrade:
Earlier versions used symbol versioning starting at GLIBC_2.2.6. Now I use GLIBC_2.3.
This is an incompatible change that breaks all binaries. If you don't want to rebuild world, you can patch the shlib-versions files (trivial).
Earlier versions used libc.so.6, libm.so.6. Now I use libc.so.1, libm.so.1. To keep your old binaries running, you can make symlinks libc.so.6 -> libc.so.1 and libm.so.6 -> libm.so.1 and remove all lib*2..2.90*. (The last step is so that ldconfig doesn't replace your handmade symlinks by its own).

Other ports:

gdb-5.2.1-diffs or gdb-5.2-diffs (works only well when compiled with native gcc against native libc),

strace-4.4-freebsd.tar.gz (port of strace, better than truss)

libtool-diffs (to be applied to every package containing a copy of libtool), libtool-1.4.2-diffs (to be applied to libtool-1.4.2 only)

bison-1.35-diffs

sh-utils-2.0.11-diffs (note: the coreutils-4.5.1 compile without problems)

tar-1.13.25-diffs

cpio-2.5-diffs

findutils-4.1.7-diffs

diffutils-2.8.1-diffs

m4-1.4o-diffs

make-3.79.2a1-diffs