Fwd: [Crossfire-devel] Compiling crossfire-server on FreeBSD 9.0

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From: Kevin Zheng <kevinz5000@...>
Date: Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 9:33 PM
Subject: [Crossfire-devel] Compiling crossfire-server on FreeBSD 9.0
To: crossfire-devel@...

Greetings everyone.

Today I decided that I would take the latest trunk version of
crossfire-server and compile it on FreeBSD 9.0 from source. For anyone
interested in going through a similar experience, crossfire-server
doesn't like compiling on FreeBSD, but with some modifications to the
configure script and makefiles, seems to work fine. So, here's what I did.

0) Do all of the preparatory work (grabbing arch, map, server, linking
arch into server/lib, etc.)

1) Created configure with the standard "sh autogen.sh"

2) Change the shebang in 'configure' from #!/bin/sh to
#!/usr/local/bin/bash. FreeBSD's /bin/sh isn't at all like bash, and
seems to choke when looking for Python. Bash seems to work fine.

3) Change all instances of '-ldl' to '-lc' in 'configure'. FreeBSD
doesn't have a -ldl, because its dlopen() is in the standard C library.

4) ./configure with your favorite options (mine is --prefix).