Joerg Hoehle  <hoehle@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
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| RC <otqocrkwvv@pvoalfotpmezsaq.net> writes:
| > I also found that if you build CLISP with 
| > --with-module=bindings/glibc
| > then you get the function (unix:getpid) included
| > but it's only working under linux.  With Freebsd
| > you get errors about bits/errno.h not being found.
| 
| Is FreeBSD a glibc based-system?
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No, or at least not by default. The BSD libc predates glibc by some years. 
There are versions of glibc used in the Linux compatibility libraries
[since FreeBSD supports running (most) precompiled  Linux applications],
and there may be some projects to get glibc on BSD "natively" [e.g., see
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2005-January/019839.html
and http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2005-January/019844.html].

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| Could you please investigate where errno and its values are defined?
+---------------

On a stock FreeBSD-4.10 they're in "/usr/include/errno.h" [there
is no such file as <bits/errno.h>], and "errno" is defined as a
C macro that calls the procedure "__error()".  As it says in the
"errno(2)" man page:

    The __error() function returns a pointer to a field in the
    thread specific structure for threads other than the initial
    thread.  For the initial thread and non-threaded processes,
    __error() returns a pointer to a global errno variable that
    is compatible with the previous definition.

Does that help?


-Rob

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