[tlbuild] 2014 builds for FreeBSD

[Alan BRASLAU]

On Wed, 2 Apr 2014 08:55:01 +0200
Peter Breitenlohner <peb at mppmu.mpg.de> wrote:

> On Tue, 1 Apr 2014, Alan BRASLAU wrote:
> 
> > On (some) BSD systems, the TL build fails as sed is hardwired and
> > appears that gsed extensions are used. A solution would be to put
> > ${SED-sed} at appropriate places so that one can define SED=gsed in
> > the environment.
> 
> Hi Alan,
> 
> (1) it would help to know the exact failure(s), i.e., during 'make'
> or 'make check', in which directory, which GNU extensions.
> 
> (2) the configure scripts should use AC_PROG_SED (see the Autoconf
> manual) but perhaps some do not and probably some shell scripts for
> tests do not use $SED.
> 
> (3) with AC_PROG_SED configure should automatically select sed or
> gsed, but having SED=gsed on the command line for configure or in the
> environment certainly does no harm.
> 
> Regards
> Peter

In fact, the problem is not sed that is hardwired and relies on GNU
extensions, but rather make that is (still) hardwired in a few places
and relies on GNU extensions. Setting
	export MAKE=/usr/local/bin/gmake
is not sufficient and here and there /usr/bin/make is used.
The first manifestations of this (g)make error are calling sed with
incorrect syntax, thus leading me to hastily believe that gsed was the
culprit.

My (temporary) solution is to put a symbolic link
	ln -s /usr/local/bin/gmake ~/bin/make
with
	PATH=~/bin:$PATH; ./Build

With this kludge, I can build, of course setting
	export CC=/usr/local/bin/gcc47
	export CXX=/usr/local/bin/g++47
as some binaries fail to build using clang.

How can one reproduce and correct the problem? Try renaming your GNU
make as gmake, setting MAKE=gmake and seeing where "make" is called but
not found. I did not figure out why MAKE is sometimes ignored and "make"
gets used. Maybe there is an AC_PROG_MAKE that should be set?

Alan

P.S. For Nikola: I still believe that your conservative practice of
building for TeXLive using a clean FreeBSD 7.2 environment in a jail is
a very good idea.