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diff --git a/src/OS/Makefile-FreeBSD b/src/OS/Makefile-FreeBSD
index ead6d09a662d1e9b8d655ba47157d5fdb10f432e..ebb116bf2af5b8d6c1960d1bdcc328700bb5380e 100644 (file)
--- a/src/OS/Makefile-FreeBSD
+++ b/src/OS/Makefile-FreeBSD
@@ -1,31 +1,44 @@
-# $Cambridge: exim/src/OS/Makefile-FreeBSD,v 1.3 2006/02/22 15:10:28 ph10 Exp $
-
 # Exim: OS-specific make file for FreeBSD
 # There's no setting of CFLAGS here, to allow the system default
 # for "make" to be the default.
 
-PORTOBJFORMAT!= test -x /usr/bin/objformat && /usr/bin/objformat || echo aout
-
 CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown
 STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip
+CHMOD_COMMAND=/bin/chmod
 
 HAVE_SA_LEN=YES
 
 # crypt() is in a separate library
-LIBS=-lcrypt -lm
+LIBS=-lcrypt -lm -lutil
+
+# Dynamicly loaded modules need to be built with -fPIC
+CFLAGS_DYNAMIC=-shared -rdynamic -fPIC
 
 # FreeBSD always ships with Berkeley DB
 USE_DB=yes
 
-# This setting changed on Sheldon Hearn's recommendation
-# X11=/usr/X11R6
-X11=$(X11BASE)
+# This code for building outside ports suggested by Richard Clayton
+.ifdef   X11BASE
+X11=${X11BASE}
+.elifdef LOCALBASE
+X11=$(LOCALBASE)
+.else
+X11=/usr/local
+.endif
 
+# nb: FreeBSD is entirely elf; objformat was removed prior to FreeBSD 7
+# http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/usr.bin/objformat/Attic/objformat.c
+# deleted Jan 2007.
+#
+# So if this fails, you're on an ancient unsupported FreeBSD release *and*
+# running GUI software, which seems both unusual and unwise.
+#
+# http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/binary-formats.html suggests that the
+# switch to default to ELF came with FreeBSD 3.  elf(5) claims ELF support
+# introduced in FreeBSD 2.2.6.
+#
 XINCLUDE=-I$(X11)/include
-XLFLAGS=-L$(X11)/lib
-.if ${PORTOBJFORMAT} == "elf"
-XLFLAGS+=-Wl,-rpath,${X11BASE}/lib
-.endif
+XLFLAGS=-L$(X11)/lib -Wl,-rpath,${X11}/lib
 X11_LD_LIB=$(X11)/lib
 
 EXIWHAT_PS_ARG=-ax