Date: 2013-01-07 05:17:50 +0100
From: Patrick TJ McPhee <>
To: GDK devs <>
Version: 11.13.9 (Oct2012-SP3)

Last updated: 2013-03-08 08:44:34 +0100

Comment 18320

Date: 2013-01-07 05:17:50 +0100
From: Patrick TJ McPhee <>

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4) Gecko/20091114 Firefox/3.5.4
Build Identifier:

On NetBSD, the defines HAVE_KVM_H and HAVE_SYS_SYSCTL_H are defined, which drops the code into the FreeBSD KVM code for returning RSS, but NetBSD's implementation is not compatible.

I'll attach a patch which allows it to compile. I've only tried this on NetBSD 6, amd64.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

1. run configure
2. run gmake

Actual Results:

libtool: compile: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I. -I../common/options -I./../common/options -I../common/stream -I./../common/stream -I../common/utils -I./../common/utils -I/usr/pkg/include -DLIBGDK -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -D_REENTRANT -c gdk_posix.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/libbat_la-gdk_posix.o
gdk_posix.c: In function 'MT_getrss':
gdk_posix.c:326:10: error: 'struct kinfo_proc' has no member named 'ki_rssize'

Expected Results:

No compilation error.

Comment 18321

Date: 2013-01-07 05:19:28 +0100
From: Patrick TJ McPhee <>

Created attachment 168
Patch which allows gdk_posix.c to compile under NetBSD 6

Attached file: netbsd-gdk.patch (text/plain, 344 bytes)
Description: Patch which allows gdk_posix.c to compile under NetBSD 6

Comment 18335

Date: 2013-01-15 16:03:13 +0100
From: @sjoerdmullender

Changeset 9880ae072539 made by Sjoerd Mullender sjoerd@acm.org in the MonetDB repo, refers to this bug.

For complete details, see http//devmonetdborg/hg/MonetDB?cmd=changeset;node=9880ae072539

Changeset description:

Make compilable on NetBSD.
This should fix bug #3217.  Thanks to Patrick TJ McPhee.

Comment 18441

Date: 2013-01-29 10:16:58 +0100
From: @sjoerdmullender

I'm assuming that this is now resolved. Please reopen if that is not the case.
The fix didn't make it to the Oct2012-SP3 release, but should be in the next release.

Comment 18508

Date: 2013-02-19 13:17:56 +0100
From: @sjoerdmullender

Feb2013 has been released.

Comment 18596

Date: 2013-03-08 06:33:43 +0100
From: Patrick TJ McPhee <>

Confirmed this worked with Feb2013 and Feb2013 sp1.

Comment 18597

Date: 2013-03-08 08:44:34 +0100
From: @sjoerdmullender

Thanks for verifying.