Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 18:55:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@1000cranes.org> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Unable to build most gnome ports Message-ID: <20030526185457.V64269@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <20030526225254.B54D25D04@ptavv.es.net> References: <20030526225254.B54D25D04@ptavv.es.net>
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On Mon, 26 May 2003, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> > > Date: 19 May 2003 12:13:08 -0400 > > > > > > > > > On Sun, 2003-05-18 at 19:18, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > > > > > After having gnumeric2 produce many Gtk errors, I decided to rebuil= > > d all > > > > > > of the dependencies of Gnumeric. This failed as pkgconfig would not > > > > > > build. I tried rebuilding gettext, but that didn't help. A large > > > > > > number of other ports have the same problem and will not build. > > > > > > > > > > > > The error occurs before anything is compiled and I can cd to the > > > > > > pkgconfig-0.15.0 directory and it seems to compile, so I suspect th= > > at > > > > > > this is an issue with the FreeBSD port. Any ideas? > > > > > > > > > > Since no one else is complaining about this, and all ports build both= > > on > > > > > bento as well as my build machine, I can only assume there is an issu= > > e > > > > > with your gettext port/make.conf/environment. Do a make configure in > > > > > /usr/ports/devel/gettext. Then look at work/gettext-0.11.5/config.h. > > > > > You should see: > > > > > > > > > > /* Define if you have the `stpcpy' function. */ > > > > > /* #undef HAVE_STPCPY */ > > > > > > > > > > This indicates the system does not contain stpcpy, and thus, gettext > > > > > needs to build its own copy. If you see HAVE_STPCPY is defined, then > > > > > you need to look at config.log to see why it's defined. You should s= > > ee: > > > > > > > > > > configure:9184: checking for stpcpy > > > > > configure:9221: cc -o conftest -O -pipe -march=3D3Dpentiumpro > > > > > -I/usr/local/include -L/usr/local/lib conftest.c >&5 > > > > > /tmp/ccPEUbzg.o: In function `main': > > > > > /tmp/ccPEUbzg.o(.text+0x9): undefined reference to `stpcpy' > > > > > configure:9224: $? =3D3D 1 > > > > > configure: failed program was: > > > > > ... > > > > > > > > > > In any event, my libintl.so does not contain any stpcpy symbol. > > > > > However, my libgettextlib.so does, but it's an internally defined > > > > > symbol: > > > > > > > > > > 00008e24 T stpcpy > > > > > > I'm truncating this whole discussion as this is just to let you add > another entry to your base of Gnome build problems. > > Since I have been unable to build a bootable CURRENT kernel for 3 weeks, > I just got around to looking at this today. (I did get my kernel issue > resolved.) > > The problem is not Gnome or any of its parts. It was gmake. On a system > that has gmake installed and then upgrades to 5.0 with stpcpy in libc, > this is what happens. gmake is still linked to the old libc.so.4 which > lacks stpcpy. But gmake is linked to libs which call stpcpy and they > can't find it, so it fails, even though it has not made anything. > > I did 'portupgrade -Rrf gmake' and that fixed it. I suspect that this is > going to became a common problem for people who upgrade from V4 to V5 > and probably gmake will not be the only program. (It probably is not on > my system as I still had several ports fail to upgrade.) Thanks for the post mortem. This is good to know. Joe > > R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer > Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) > Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) > E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 > > PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc
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