[gentoo-alt] freebsd bootstrap notes

[Michael Yang]

here are some differences between my freebsd-7.2 release bootstrapping
experience and the directions at:
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/prefix/bootstrap-freebsd.xml

 * use coreutils6 instead of coreutils
      coreutils fails with mbswidth.c:64: error: expected identifier
or '(' before string constant)
 * use findutils 4.4.2 instead of findutils (had to alter the
bootstrap-prefix.sh)
      findutils fails with:
./find.texi:10: @include `../locate/dblocation.texi': No such file or directory.
./find.texi:554: warning: undefined flag: LOCATE_DB.

findutils3 fails with:
error.c:59: error: conflicting types for 'strerror_r'
/usr/include/string.h:85: error: previous declaration of 'strerror_r'
was here

 * run:

$ ./bootstrap-prefix.sh $EPREFIX/tmp make

prior to

$ ./bootstrap-prefix.sh $EPREFIX/tmp {grep,gawk}

Bootstrapping grep/gawk native 'make' assumes SHELL=/bin/sh even if
the script is run from a bash environment with the SHELL=`which bash`
pointing to the $EPREFIX/tmp/usr/bin/bash.  The Makefiles with the
bootstrapped fail with an error message like:

( cd "." && find . -name '.svn' -prune -o -type d -print ) | while read f ; do
  files=( ) ;  for t in "./${f}"/* ; do  [[ -d ${t} ]] && continue ;  [[ ${t} ==
 */Makefile* ]] && continue ;  files=( "${files[@]}" "${t}" ) ;  done ;  /home/m
ichael/gentoo/tmp/usr/bin/install -c -d -m 755  -o "michael" -g "michael"  "/hom
e/michael/gentoo/usr/lib/portage/bin/${f}" &&  ../subst-install -m 755  -o "mich
ael" -g "michael"  -t "/home/michael/gentoo/usr/lib/portage/bin/${f}"  "${files[
@]}" ;  done
Syntax error: ";" unexpected
*** Error code 2

which can be reproduced if one enters the build directory and types
`make` if using /bin/sh shell.  The error doesn't happen if using
bash.

-mike