Re: [PATCH] NS3 build fails on FreeBSD

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> Hi all,
>
> As this is my first interaction with the NS community, allow me start by
> briefly introducing myself. My name is Lawrence and I'm working on
> wrapping up my PhD which is focused on datacenter congestion control.
> There's more about me at [1].
>
> I've almost completed a from-scratch port of FreeBSD 9's network stack
> into the NSC (currently TCP only). I'll be using it with NS3 to run some
> simulations which will complement the work I'm doing with my physical
> FreeBSD testbed. I hope to share my NSC work at some point, and I've
> been in touch with Sam who is aware of what I'm up to.
>
> I've been lurking on both the users and developers lists for a little
> while, and have an initial contribution to make which is attached. In
> short, two of the lte model sources conditionally define the log2()
> function when compiled on FreeBSD, which is no longer necessary on newer
> FreeBSD versions and breaks the build.
>
> I haven't extensively checked the __FreeBSD_version numbers in the patch
> (which I snarfed as is from another FreeBSD port which had a similar
> problem with redefining log2()), but I have no reason to believe they're
> wrong and the patch fixes the build for me on my FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE
> desktop built from FreeBSD svn r237942 sources.
>
> I'm committing all my work across NSC and NS3 to private Mercurial
> repositories which shadow the main NSC and NS3 repositories. I should
> state up front that time is very scarce for me at the moment, so while
> I'll try to share what I can as I go, and engage in improving my
> contributions if feedback is given, I may be very slow to react or
> postpone acting until the thesis is out the door.
>
> Cheers,
> Lawrence
>
> http://caia.swin.edu.au/
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> [1] http://caia.swin.edu.au/cv/lstewart/
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