source fails to build in freebsd 8

[ubiquity]

libdesktop-agnostic from bzr revision 382 fails to build in FreeBSD 8. Fails at [43/144] in waf command. (Script of the build attached) All dependencies are met other than not running on linux. (May be an incompatability between freebsd and gnu libc's?)

[ 41/144] cc: build/default/libdesktop-agnostic/vfs-file.c -> build/default/libdesktop-agnostic/vfs-file_2.o
[ 42/144] cc: build/default/libdesktop-agnostic/vfs-file-monitor.c -> build/default/libdesktop-agnostic/vfs-file-monitor_2.o
[ 43/144] cc: build/default/libdesktop-agnostic/vfs-glob.c -> build/default/libdesktop-agnostic/vfs-glob_2.o
default/libdesktop-agnostic/vfs-glob.c: In function 'desktop_agnostic_vfs_glob_instance_init':
default/libdesktop-agnostic/vfs-glob.c:373: error: 'GLOB_TILDE_CHECK' undeclared (first use in this function)
default/libdesktop-agnostic/vfs-glob.c:373: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
default/libdesktop-agnostic/vfs-glob.c:373: error: for each function it appears in.)
Waf: Leaving directory `/usr/home/slunk/builds/libdesktop-agnostic/build'
Build failed
 -> task failed (err #1):
 {task: cc vfs-glob.c -> vfs-glob_2.o}

[Mark Lee (malept)]

Yep, the glob implementation depends on the GNU implementation of glob. There's also a fundamental problem there if you attempt to build for Windows :)

What I'll probably end up doing is check for a) glob existence and b) GNU extensions to glob, and bundle some copy of gnulib's glob implementation.

[ubiquity (slunky)]

Thanks. Until then, I'll be building it on Fedora and running it under FreeBSD's linux compatability layer. Let me know if you need patches tested on this issue. I'd be more than happy to help.

[Henry Hu (henryhu)]

Just a "me too" here. Currently I changed GLOB_TILDE_CHECK to GLOB_TILDE, and I will see the results.

[Kirill Yelizarov (ykirill)]

Is this work is still in progress? I build libdesktop-agnostic on FreeBSD 8.1 Stable with the patch mentioned above (GLOB_TILDE) and then successfully build awn 0.4 and awn-extras 0.4 (most of the applets are not working yet). Are there any plans of building a port libdesktop-agnostic for FreeBSD?