Assigning to myself to review/check this, since I seem to be the department of portability.

We may be able to fix some of this by syncing code from telepathy-gabble - could you please try building Gabble 0.10.0 and confirm whether that works on OpenBSD?

(For context: Gibber was a prototype GLib network/XMPP library shared by Gabble and Salut. We pushed many of the network bits into GIO instead; the XMPP bits became Wocky, which is currently part of Gabble but will become a separate library when it's more stable. Our long-term plan is to migrate everything into GIO or Wocky as appropriate, then delete what's left of Gibber.)

(In reply to comment #0)
> - Include the right headers needed, at the right location (system headers
> before uerland headers)

Hopefully this won't break any other Unixes in the process... I'll need to check autoconf.info before merging this, but in principle it seems OK.

> - Locally define SCM_CREDENTIALS and SO_PASSCRED. This is rather ugly, and I'm
> not even sure this actually works. Any idea?

Sorry, I'm not going to accept patches that #define random system constants; surely there must be a system header that provides these?

The equivalent code in Gabble just disables credentials-passing in the library code on non-Linux OSs (!defined(__linux__)), then copes with that omission in src/. As a first step to make this compile on OpenBSD, we should do that.

After that, the next step would be to implement credentials-passing for *BSD too. The way forward for that would probably be to make sure it's implemented in GIO (which I believe currently supports it on at least Linux and FreeBSD - does OpenBSD work the same as one of those?), then use the appropriate GIO API on all OSs. Failing that, we could also include code derived from what's in GIO.

> - OpenBSD's ucred structure doesn't have a pid member.

Including a dummy pid (0 or -1 perhaps) seems safer than the CM's own pid. I don't think Gabble or Salut actually use the pid anyway, so we could just remove it from the Gibber API.

(In reply to comment #1)
> We may be able to fix some of this by syncing code from telepathy-gabble

Indeed, looking at the NEWS file, I already did this for version 0.3.12. Please confirm whether these changes are actually needed in the current development version from the git repository?

    git://git.collabora.co.uk/git/telepathy-salut.git

(In reply to comment #1)
> Assigning to myself to review/check this, since I seem to be the department of
> portability.
> 
> We may be able to fix some of this by syncing code from telepathy-gabble -
> could you please try building Gabble 0.10.0 and confirm whether that works on
> OpenBSD?
We needed some patches for that as well, please see:
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/net/telepathy/telepathy-gabble/patches/

> (For context: Gibber was a prototype GLib network/XMPP library shared by Gabble
> and Salut. We pushed many of the network bits into GIO instead; the XMPP bits
> became Wocky, which is currently part of Gabble but will become a separate
> library when it's more stable. Our long-term plan is to migrate everything into
> GIO or Wocky as appropriate, then delete what's left of Gibber.)
> 
> (In reply to comment #0)
> > - Include the right headers needed, at the right location (system headers
> > before uerland headers)
> 
> Hopefully this won't break any other Unixes in the process... I'll need to
> check autoconf.info before merging this, but in principle it seems OK.
It shouldn't break any Unixes..

> > - Locally define SCM_CREDENTIALS and SO_PASSCRED. This is rather ugly, and I'm
> > not even sure this actually works. Any idea?
> 
> Sorry, I'm not going to accept patches that #define random system constants;
> surely there must be a system header that provides these?
> 
> The equivalent code in Gabble just disables credentials-passing in the library
> code on non-Linux OSs (!defined(__linux__)), then copes with that omission in
> src/. As a first step to make this compile on OpenBSD, we should do that.
The revised patch for Gabble has been removed (since it's !__linux__).

> After that, the next step would be to implement credentials-passing for *BSD
> too. The way forward for that would probably be to make sure it's implemented
> in GIO (which I believe currently supports it on at least Linux and FreeBSD -
> does OpenBSD work the same as one of those?), then use the appropriate GIO API
> on all OSs. Failing that, we could also include code derived from what's in
> GIO.
OpenBSD's implementation would be more like FreeBSD's in GIO. But OpenBSD itself doesn't support passing around socket credentials.

> > - OpenBSD's ucred structure doesn't have a pid member.
> 
> Including a dummy pid (0 or -1 perhaps) seems safer than the CM's own pid. I
> don't think Gabble or Salut actually use the pid anyway, so we could just
> remove it from the Gibber API.
That'd be even better :)

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