README.BSD

Notes for FreeBSD and to some extent also OS/X
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Hercules has been build on FreeBSD and on its derivative, OS/X.  While
untested, there should be more than a sporting chance that it builds
on NetBSD and OpenBSD too.

You need to install the ports of the gnu m4, make, and sed commands
in addition to the packages mentioned in the INSTALL file as Hercules
will not build with the original BSD version of these utilities.

To avoid modifying a plethora of files, you should add these aliases
to the .bashrc file of the user that builds Hercules:

alias make=gmake
alias sed=gsed
alias m4=gm4

Also, beware that many of the autoxxxx ports are rather old in the tooth
in the FreeBSD ports collection.

In particular, the message "missing: Unknown `--is-lightweight'" indicates
that someone has been a little too eager.

John P. Hartmann 2014-08-04.