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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi all –<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Because I know the gcobol people are on this list, I successfully built gcobol on a FreeBSD/amd64 14.2 box.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Testsuite is very positive; only 2 tests fail and I can’t rule out one of the failures being my own mistake.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">There are really only two hurdles here: first is relying on glibc’s __float128 routines instead of the ones built into gcc via libquadmath; fixing this makes up the bulk of the changes.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The second, much smaller change, is that FreeBSD does not have random_r and related functions. So I changed them to their non-_r versions. Which I’m sure will cause subtle problems somewhere but maybe this inspires someone to implement
the functions.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I put up a quick GitHub repo for those who want to see how to do it themselves:
<a href="https://github.com/ibara/freebsd-gcobol">https://github.com/ibara/freebsd-gcobol</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Or you can just grab the tarball from the releases tab: <a href="https://github.com/ibara/freebsd-gcobol/releases/tag/20250316">
https://github.com/ibara/freebsd-gcobol/releases/tag/20250316</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">~Brian<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ligatures:none">Brian Robert Callahan, ’15G, ’18 Ph.D., ISSMP, CISSP, CISM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ligatures:none">Graduate Program Director, ITWS@RPI<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ligatures:none">Director, Rensselaer Cybersecurity Collaboratory<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ligatures:none">Office: Lally 304</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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