X-Git-Url: https://git.exim.org/exim.git/blobdiff_plain/3634fc257bd0667daef14d72005cd87c735bbb24..0578e5cd0d433794ba33cefc8963476ef1c22d53:/src/OS/Makefile-FreeBSD

diff --git a/src/OS/Makefile-FreeBSD b/src/OS/Makefile-FreeBSD
index 30e383c44..ca1073e11 100644
--- a/src/OS/Makefile-FreeBSD
+++ b/src/OS/Makefile-FreeBSD
@@ -1,19 +1,23 @@
 # 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
+#
+# Copyright (c) The Exim Maintainers 2020 - 2023
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
 
 CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown
-STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip
+#STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip
 CHMOD_COMMAND=/bin/chmod
 
+
+# FreeBSD Ports no longer insert compatibility symlinks into /usr/bin for
+# scripting languages which traditionally have had them.
+PERL_COMMAND=/usr/local/bin/perl
+
 HAVE_SA_LEN=YES
 
 # crypt() is in a separate library
-LIBS=-lcrypt -lm -lutil
+LIBS=-lcrypt -lm -lutil -lexecinfo
 
-# Dynamicly loaded modules need to be built with -fPIC
+# Dynamically loaded modules need to be built with -fPIC
 CFLAGS_DYNAMIC=-shared -rdynamic -fPIC
 
 # FreeBSD always ships with Berkeley DB
@@ -28,11 +32,19 @@ X11=$(LOCALBASE)
 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 ${PORTOBJFORMAT} == "elf"
-XLFLAGS+=-Wl,-rpath,${X11}/lib
-.endif
+XLFLAGS=-L$(X11)/lib -Wl,-rpath,${X11}/lib
 X11_LD_LIB=$(X11)/lib
 
 EXIWHAT_PS_ARG=-ax