[impdev] Porting to FreeBSD ... and irritations

[David Seikel]

On Fri, 17 Jun 2011 20:44:18 -0400 Nathan Lay <nslay at comcast.net> wrote:

> So, I'm working on porting this to FreeBSD for fun ... luckily all
> code I've come across for LL_LINUX, LL_SOLARIS and LL_DARWIN apply to 
> directly FreeBSD (for POSIX and BSD reasons) so it hasn't been
> terribly difficult so far. I can build up to 30% of the entire
> project now (not sure it actually _works_ though).
> 
> So far, I've run into some irritations that make porting more
> difficult, namely: STANDALONE, python and glh

I would hazard a guess that they are left over LL madness.  My theory
is that if there is N ways of doing something, LL will implement N+1
ways.  You have stumbled upon some of those +1 implementations.

Personally, patches are welcome.  B-)

-- 
A big old stinking pile of genius that no one wants
coz there are too many silver coated monkeys in the world.
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