FreeBSD specific Release Engineering: what changed
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Title: FreeBSD specific Release Engineering
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| 1 | + | ## scripts using sh instead of bash | |
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| 3 | + | (originally by Andres K. Foerster) | |
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| 5 | + | Current scripts: samplecfg/install.sh/cross* known scripts not affected: makepack (no chance of running on a TARGET computer) | |
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| 7 | + | The script sometimes uses one "=" and sometimes two "==" for comparisions. The /bin/sh of FreeBSD accepts just one "=" in comparisions. See test(1). or sometimes the "x" trick works: if \[ "x\$something" = "xsomething" \] ... | |
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| 9 | + | "echo -n" is supported in the shell of FreeBSD, but it's not standard. You could use "printf" instead of "echo -n". That seems more standardized. | |
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| 11 | + | Also the tar parameter "--directory" is a extension of GNU-tar. You could use "-C" instead of "--directory", but be careful with that. It seems "-C" is implemented differently. (My FreeBSD still comes with GNU tar, but I've heard that they switch to their own version of tar... I'll have a look at it.) | |
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| 13 | + | That's all as far as I can see. Then you can use "#!/bin/sh". | |
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| 15 | + | (Marco van de Voort:) | |
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| 17 | + | - Also test using BSD sed and tar from time to time. (some sed constructs are already replaced by awk) | |
| 18 | + | - In case of bash use \#!/usr/bin/env bash NEVER hardcode the shell path! | |
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| 20 | + | ## install.sh | |
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| 22 | + | The documentation currently generates the PDF docs with a directory in the .tar.gz, which doesn't play nice with FreeBSD hierarchy. Moreover, to workaround this on Linux, they use gnu tar specific options (--directory). | |
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| 24 | + | So every release the following changes are made: - the docs are repacked without the directory - the --directory option is removed from the doc tar x line in the install.sh script | |
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| 26 | + | ## notes from recent packaging | |
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| 28 | + | - synced all ELF ABI tag versions to make it easier to patch with the i386/identpatch.sh script. | |
| 29 | + | - FreeBSD 8.2 bsdtar seems to understand --strip fine. | |
| 30 | + | - See sometimes "grab_vcsa" missing error. | |
| 31 | + | - debugger of 9.0/i386 gave funny results/output. Constantly gave "errorcode=0 3 hidden steps" msgs. | |
| 32 | + | - newer freebsd seems to have a kiconv. Maybe the RTL should use kiconv instead of iconv. If only because the iconv package has a dependency on perl 5. | |
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| 34 | + | ## See also | |
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| 36 | + | - [[FreeBSD]] | |
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| 38 | + | --- | |
| 39 | + | *From the Free Pascal wiki, page "FreeBSD specific Release Engineering", as it stood on 2020-08-26 after a change by Trev, out of the wiki's dump of 2024-05-26. Copyright stays with the author who wrote it, according to the old wiki's [[Licensing]] page. If you have concerns about this material, [message the admin](/wiki-contact).* | |
| 40 | + | Category: BSD | |
| 41 | + | Category: FPC development | |
| 42 | + | Category: FreeBSD | |
| 43 | + | Category: Release engineering |