[Debian-iot-maintainers] Bug#829623: libcoap: FTBFS on non-Linux: unsupported operating system

[Carsten Schoenert]

Hello Aaron,

On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 08:14:11PM -0400, Aaron M. Ucko wrote:
> That's fair.  I tried your suggested patch on the porterbox
> falla.debian.org, but found that the build still failed because
> src/coap_io.c relies on IP_PKTINFO, which isn't available on kFreeBSD
> (or the Hurd, for that matter).  As such, it looks like specifying
> Architecture: linux-any is the way to go after all.

a small update on that issue.
Olaf and myself got the FreeBSD platform implemented into the supported
build environment. But the issue later while building is still alive.

Olaf is willing to take a look at this build issue later once we have
finished the FreeBSD platform support. I can't help much on that, my
experience with C on that low level stuff is rather small. But it should
be solvable as the problem isn't now and already fixed in other
packages. Unless this issue isn't really fixed I will left this report
open and tagged with help needed.

Regards
Carsten