[QPID-2549] Port qpid to FreeBSD

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.6
• Fix Version/s: qpid-cpp-1.35.0
• Component/s: C++ Broker
• Labels: freebsd porting

Environment

FreeBSD 8-CURRENT on amd64 (64 bit)
$ g++ -v
Using built-in specs.
Target: amd64-undermydesk-freebsd
Configured with: FreeBSD/amd64 system compiler
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.2.1 20070719 [FreeBSD]
$ python -V
Python 2.6.1
$ pkg_info | grep boost
boost-python-1.37.0 Free peer-reviewed portable C++ source libraries

svn trunk version, checked out now (r765092)
./configure CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include -L/usr/local/lib" LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib" --with-poller=poll

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Andrew Stitcher
• Created: 26/Apr/10 12:56
• Updated: 06/Sep/16 21:32
• Resolved: 05/Aug/16 17:51

Description

For qpid to work on FreeBSD it needs a version of the low level Poller code that works there:

[Comments from original reporter below]
g++ Werror -pedantic -Wall -Wextra -Wno-shadow -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-qual -Wcast-align -Wno-long-long -Wvolatile-register-var -Winvalid-pch -Wno-system-headers -Woverloaded-virtual -DMODULE_DIR=\"/usr/local/lib/qpid/daemon\" -DCONF_FILE=\"/usr/local/etc/qpidd.conf\" -g -O2 -o .libs/qpidd qpidd-qpidd.o posix/qpidd-QpiddBroker.o -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/lib/openais -L/usr/lib64/openais -L/usr/lib/corosync -L/usr/lib64/corosync ./.libs/libqpidbroker.so /test/qpid/qpid/cpp/src/.libs/libqpidcommon.so ./.libs/libqpidcommon.so -lboost_program_options -lboost_filesystem -luuid -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/usr/local/lib
/test/qpid/qpid/cpp/src/.libs/libqpidcommon.so: undefined reference to `qpid::sys::Poller::interrupt(qpid::sys::PollerHandle&)'
/test/qpid/qpid/cpp/src/.libs/libqpidcommon.so: undefined reference to `typeinfo for qpid::sys::PollerHandle'
./.libs/libqpidbroker.so: undefined reference to `qpid::sys::Poller::shutdown()'
/test/qpid/qpid/cpp/src/.libs/libqpidcommon.so: undefined reference to `qpid::sys::PollerHandle::~PollerHandle()'
./.libs/libqpidbroker.so: undefined reference to `qpid::sys::Poller::Poller()'
/test/qpid/qpid/cpp/src/.libs/libqpidcommon.so: undefined reference to `qpid::sys::Poller::addFd(qpid::sys::PollerHandle&, qpid::sys::Poller::Direction)'
/test/qpid/qpid/cpp/src/.libs/libqpidcommon.so: undefined reference to `qpid::sys::Poller::delFd(qpid::sys::PollerHandle&)'
/test/qpid/qpid/cpp/src/.libs/libqpidcommon.so: undefined reference to `qpid::sys::PollerHandle::PollerHandle(qpid::sys::IOHandle const&)'
/test/qpid/qpid/cpp/src/.libs/libqpidcommon.so: undefined reference to `qpid::sys::Poller::modFd(qpid::sys::PollerHandle&, qpid::sys::Poller::Direction)'

I think it would be nice to have at least a standard select/poll interface. Going straight with (and only with) the specialised OS-dependent interfaces seem to be a bad idea for the poor people, not running Linux (or Solaris, or Windows, if they work correctly).
BTW, shouldn't using libevent or libev would be more logical?

[Comments from AStitcher:]
There are two essential options here write a Poller using the kqueue which has very similar capability to the Linux epoll, or write a less functional (and probably performant) but far more portable version using the posix poll.

Issue Links

• is a clone of: QPID-1811 Unable to compile qpid on FreeBSD
• relates to: QPID-2527 Remove Thread::id() dependency