[Mono-devel-list] Patches for FreeBSD (and other BSD flavors, likely)

[Zoltan Varga]

                                               Hi,

  For the sigcontext stuff, I think it would be easier to define
MONO_ARCH_USE_SIGACTION in mini-x86.h for *BSD as well. Could you try
this ?

                              Zoltan

On Apr 3, 2005 3:29 AM, Tom McLaughlin <tmclaugh at sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 03:08 +0200, Bill Middleton wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> >   I've got a working svn build on FreeBSD now, and include a patch.
> > There are (were) several issues with getting the svn source to build
> > under FreeBSD:
> >
> > 1. BSD sigcontext{} structure has its members named sc_* (sc_eax,
> > sc_ebx, sc_ecx, etc.).  A set of #define's was introduced some time back
> > in mini-x86.h to map these BSD sigcontext{}members to the  more standard
> > names (eax, ebx, ecx, etc), but recent changes to exceptions-x86.c,
> > mini-x86.c and others (see patch) neglected to use the #define'd
> > conventions.   Whenever a MonoContext{} member is accessed, it needs to
> > be accessed using the #define'd names (SC_EAX, SC_EBX, etc) to avoid
> > breaking *bsd* in the future.
> >
> > 2. libgc fixes include FREEBSD in the sigaction()'s where appropriate,
> > and also change the suspend and restart signals for threads to STOP and
> > CONT (from USR1 and USR2), which are the signals supported by the
> > current pthreads implementation for FreeBSD.   These libgc changes were
> > taken directly from the FreeBSD ports patches for Mono 1.0.6, and also
> > include a small dyn_load.c change to test for ELF word size.  All are
> > specific to FreeBSD.
> >
> > I hope I've done this right, the patchfile is attached and appended.
> > Your feedback is welcome.
> >
> >
> > Regards, and thanks for your work on Mono.
> >
> > Bill Middleton
> >
> 
> THANK YOU!  I'll start adding these patches to my FreeBSD Mono port
> tonight or tomorrow.  I have a Mono 1.1.x port (lang/mono-devel) sitting
> in my CVS for leading up to the switch over to Mono 1.2 in the FreeBSD
> ports tree.  Feel free to take a look at the rest of the patches still
> in CVS here:
> 
> http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/cvs/cvsbrowse.php/bsd-sharp/FreeBSD-ports/lang/mono-devel/files/
> 
> I inherited the Mono port because I wanted to learn C# and have an up to
> date and maintained port available in the ports tree.  Fixing the
> existing bugs are over my head unfortunately.  Most of the existing
> patches are from NetBSD's port and have been there for some time.  Not
> sure how correct they are so I never attempted to submit them upstream.
> If you're a FreeBSD user, feel free to join the mailing list I have for
> Mono on FreeBSD, you can get to it from the link in my sig.  And thank
> you again!
> 
> Tom
> 
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