Re: tarlz 0.16 build failure on FreeBSD 11.3

[Matias Fonzo]

El 2020-05-01 13:09, Antonio Diaz Diaz escribió:
> Hello David,
>
> David Glover-Aoki wrote:
> > tarlz is not included in the FreeBSD ports so I'm trying to build it 
> > from source, but I get the following error:
> >
> > c++ -O2 -c create.cc -o create.o
> > create.cc:33:10: fatal error: 'sys/sysmacros.h' file not found
> > #include<sys/sysmacros.h>               // for major, minor
>
> Thank you very much for reporting this. It seems that sys/sysmacros.h
> is not part of POSIX, in spite of its macros being needed to
> encode/decode device numbers in tar/pax archives, and some POSIX
> systems do not provide it.
>
> Could you, please, try including sys/sysmacros.h conditionally in
> create.cc and extract.cc like in the following example (or with other
> macro suitable for FreeBSD), and tell me if it compiles. Thanks.
>
> #if !defined __FreeBSD__
> #include <sys/sysmacros.h>              // for major, minor
> #endif

It seems that the major / minor / makedev are available through 
sys/types.h on some BSDs, I can't find a direct source of the 
information, yet.  But I am seeing some bug reports and changes like 
this[1].

[1] 
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35392291/how-to-convert-between-a-dev-t-and-major-minor-device-numbers/35392350