[bug #55526] FTBFS on GNU/kFreeBSD: NSWorkspace.m:1252:27: error: 'MOUNTED_PATH' undeclared

[Yavor Doganov]

Follow-up Comment #4, bug #55526 (project gnustep):

Thanks; I won't be able to build-test it until the next gnustep-gui upload to
Debian.

GNU/kFreeBSD is more closer to GNU/Linux than to FreeBSD, because the
underlying C library (glibc) is the same.  This is basically a GNU system but
running with another kernel.  Part of the confusion comes because people talk
about Linux as an OS when in fact it's just a kernel.

For programming purposes, you can (and should) treat GNU/kFreeBSD as a glibc
platform -- you are already using the portable macros as documented in the
glibc manual (albeit confusingly redefined to the deprecated ones) so that
should be sufficient.

The conditionals in -mountedLocalVolumePaths are of no concern since the
HAVE_GETMNTINFO branch will be compiled on GNU/kFreeBSD, which is fine.  It is
also fine to compile the other branch (HAVE_GETMNTENT) and you can enforce it
on GNU/kFreeBSD if you wish so with the appropriate defines.

But the result should be the same.  When Bruno Haibble ported the GNU C
Library to the FreeBSD kernel (hats off to this hacker!), he implemented
interfaces which were not feasible with the Linux kernel but were expected and
customary with a FreeBSD kernel, like getmntinfo.

So there it is, a hybrid system which proves the defines were wrong as it is
perfectly possible to have both.

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