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Bug 337247 - freebsd sysdeps need to link against libkvm
freebsd sysdeps need to link against libkvm
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: libgtop
Classification: Core
Component: bsd
2.15.x
Other NetBSD
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: libgtop maintainers
libgtop maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-04-04 19:24 UTC by Julio Merino
Modified: 2006-04-09 10:12 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
Sample patch. (1.90 KB, patch)
2006-04-04 19:25 UTC, Julio Merino 		committed Details | Review

Description Julio Merino 2006-04-04 19:24:35 UTC 
The freebsd sysdeps uses a BSD specific library, known as libkvm, that is used to access kernel data.  It is easy to check this by grepping for kvm_* in the sysdeps/freebsd directory.

However, these functions are only available if the libkvm library is used.  (I can only speak for NetBSD; don't know where FreeBSD has them.)  As the library is not currently linked against libkvm, the build fails under NetBSD.

Fixing this issue is easy: link the freebsd sysdeps_suid library against libkvm if this library is available.  If we were sure that this library is _always_ available in a BSD system, we'd get rid of the additional check in configure... but better to be safe than sorry, I think.
Comment 1 Julio Merino 2006-04-04 19:25:07 UTC 
Created attachment 62759 [details] [review]
Sample patch.