The unit test Makefile generation was a hodge-podge of constants and rules based on distros/versions that easily got out of date and did not work on an unknown system. All of this dates from the mixed Perl/C unit test implementation.
Instead use configure to generate most of the important Makefile variables, which allows the unit tests to run on multiple platforms, e.g. MacOS and FreeBSD.
There is plenty of work to be done here and not all the unit tests work on MacOS and FreeBSD for various reasons.
As a POC update the MacOS and FreeBSD tests on Cirrus-CI to run a few command unit tests.
Building on these platforms gives us better coverage for our build code. Cirrus CI was chosen because it is the only service that supports FreeBSD (that we could find).
The FreedBSD configuration for Vagrant is currently just enough to perform a build.
The MacOS configuration is not actually for Vagrant (yet) but does show the steps needed to setup the build environment on MacOS.
