From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 22 20:48:04 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8157C16A4A0 for ; Sun, 22 Jul 2007 20:48:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from betty.computinginnovations.com (mail.computinginnovations.com [64.81.227.250]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B34B713C428 for ; Sun, 22 Jul 2007 20:48:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from p28.computinginnovations.com (dhcp-10-20-30-100.computinginnovations.com [10.20.30.100]) (authenticated bits=0) by betty.computinginnovations.com (8.13.8/8.12.11) with ESMTP id l6MKldPE091775; Sun, 22 Jul 2007 15:47:39 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <6.0.0.22.2.20070722154318.02519e10@mail.computinginnovations.com> X-Sender: derek@mail.computinginnovations.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.0.22 Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 15:47:08 -0500 To: Christian Baer , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Derek Ragona In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-From: derek@computinginnovations.com X-Spam-Status: No Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Re: trouble compiling some ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 20:48:04 -0000 At 02:06 PM 7/22/2007, Christian Baer wrote: >Hello Folks! > >Currently I am setting up a new computer (Sun U60) with FreeBSD and I am >in serious guano. :-/ > >I am currently running 6.2-p6, of course with the ports up to date. >Normally the ports would not be the install method of choice since the >processors of this machine are relatively slow and compiling of slightly >bigger projects seems to take forever - especially since most ports >won't compile with multipal jobs. However, probably because of the >fact that all UltraSPARC CPUs that FreeBSD supports are this slow and >AFAIK cross-plattform-compiling is not supported (yet), many of the >packages are really ancient. So if you want up to date software, you >have to use the ports. > >First I tried to install portupgrade. That however failed with an error >message that lets me think, there is still some confusion because this >port was moved from sysutils/ to ports-mgmt/.[1,7] This suspicion is >hardened by the fact that ruby won't compile when it is built as a >dependency of portupgrade, however it *does* compile and install >without any complications if this is done directly from the >/usr/ports/lang/ruby18/ directory. > >Well, since that didn't work I decided to get busy on the MTA. I don't >much like Sendmail (although I had some thoughts about getting re- >aquainted) and Postfix is a little more what I want. Postfix requires >Perl 5.8 to work and if that isn't installed, the Postfix port does that >for me. Because I like to at least look at the options of each port >before I build and install anything, I decided to install Perl 5.8 "on >foot" (from the port of course). But that too refused to work. The build >stops with an error code 1 while still saying that everything is ok[2]. > >To verify what happened, the port offers a "make test" which I ran. >While this is running it spits out several messages like this one: > >lib/Test/Simple/t/threads.................skipping test on this platform > >where I have to admit that I don't understand why these specific test do >not apply to my plattform. There are some that I understand (like some >tests for Win32), but not all of them. Well I guess the programmer knew >what he/she was doing and left it at that. > >make test also spits out three error messages[3,4,5] which I haven't >included in the correct order, I'm afraid. The end of the test script >shows an error message[6] which doesn't really make me feel confident >about installing what I've just built. > >Note #1: >You may find that in the messages shown below, Perl was compiled with >the -mcpu option which tends to break some ports (or even make >buildworld). I know about this and have tried several very conservative >options, down to only "-O -pipe". I have also tried not only p6 but also >the current -STABLE, compiled with different compiler-options - which I >might say is *very* ball-busting on such a slow machine. > >Note #2: >Someone in a German newsgroup told me that this problem (Perl won't >compile) seems to apply to AMD64 as well. This would *really* surprise >me as Perl is widely used and I didn't find any reports of this problem >anywhere else. > >Note #3: >The error message noted in [3] seems a bit more that a coincidence: >1111111111111111111111111111111100000000000000000000000000000000 returned, >1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 expected. >There were thoughts about big-/little-endian (SPARC is big-endian) >problems but also about a bug in gcc's data-types. > >Can anyone help? > >Regards, >Chris > > >[1] last lines from portupgrade's build >/usr/local/bin/ruby18 -p -e 'sub %r:/usr/local:, "/usr/local"' >ports.rb > .build/ports.rb >/usr/local/bin/ruby18 -wc portsdb.rb >Syntax OK >/usr/local/bin/ruby18 -p -e 'sub %r:/usr/local:, "/usr/local"' >portsdb.rb > .build/portsdb.rb >===> man (all) >Warning: Object directory not changed from original >/usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portupgrade/work/pkgtools-2.3.1/man >gzip -cn pkg_deinstall.1 > pkg_deinstall.1.gz >gzip -cn pkg_fetch.1 > pkg_fetch.1.gz >gzip -cn pkg_glob.1 > pkg_glob.1.gz >gzip -cn pkg_sort.1 > pkg_sort.1.gz >gzip -cn pkgdb.1 > pkgdb.1.gz >gzip -cn portcvsweb.1 > portcvsweb.1.gz >gzip -cn portsclean.1 > portsclean.1.gz >gzip -cn portsdb.1 > portsdb.1.gz >gzip -cn portupgrade.1 > portupgrade.1.gz >gzip -cn portversion.1 > portversion.1.gz >gzip -cn pkgtools.conf.5 > pkgtools.conf.5.gz >===> misc (all) >===> misc/bash (all) >Warning: Object directory not changed from original >/usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portupgrade/work/pkgtools-2.3.1/misc/bash >===> misc/tcsh (all) >Warning: Object directory not changed from original >/usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portupgrade/work/pkgtools-2.3.1/misc/tcsh >===> misc/zsh (all) >Warning: Object directory not changed from original >/usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portupgrade/work/pkgtools-2.3.1/misc/zsh > > > >[2] End of the Perl 5.8 build > Making threads::shared (dynamic) >Writing Makefile for threads::shared >cp shared.pm ../../../lib/threads/shared.pm >../../../miniperl "-I../../../lib" "-I../../../lib" >../../../lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp -typemap ../../../lib/ExtUtils/typemap >-typemap typemap shared.xs > shared.xsc && mv shared.xsc shared.c >cc -c -DAPPLLIB_EXP="/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/BSDPAN" >-DHAS_FPSETMASK -DHAS_FLOATINGPOINT_H -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe >-Wdeclaration-after-statement -I/usr/local/include -O2 -pipe >-mcpu=ultrasparc -mtune=ultrasparc -DVERSION=\"0.94\" >-DXS_VERSION=\"0.94\" -DPIC -fPIC "-I../../.." shared.c >Running Mkbootstrap for threads::shared () >chmod 644 shared.bs >rm -f ../../../lib/auto/threads/shared/shared.so >cc -shared -L/usr/local/lib shared.o -o >../../../lib/auto/threads/shared/shared.so >chmod 755 ../../../lib/auto/threads/shared/shared.so >cp shared.bs ../../../lib/auto/threads/shared/shared.bs >chmod 644 ../../../lib/auto/threads/shared/shared.bs > > Making Errno (nonxs) >Writing Makefile for Errno >../../miniperl "-I../../lib" "-I../../lib" Errno_pm.PL Errno.pm >cp Errno.pm ../../lib/Errno.pm >*** Error code 1 (ignored) > > Everything is up to date. Type 'make test' to run test suite. > > > >[3] error message from Perl "make test" >lib/integer...............................# Failed test 'left shift' ># in ../lib/integer.t at line 49. ># got: '-4294967296' ># expected: '-9223372036854775808' >FAILED at test 10 > > > >[4] error message from Perl "make test" >t/op/pack.................................# Failed at op/pack.t line 631 ># Failed at op/pack.t line 631 >FAILED at test 514 > > > >[5] error message from Perl "make test" >t/op/groups...............................FAILED at test 1 > > > >[6] End of Perl's make test >t/x2p/s2p.................................ok >Failed 3 test scripts out of 938, 99.68% okay. >### Since not all tests were successful, you may want to run some of >### them individually and examine any diagnostic messages they produce. >### See the INSTALL document's section on "make test". >### You have a good chance to get more information by running >### ./perl harness >### in the 't' directory since most (>=80%) of the tests succeeded. >### You may have to set your dynamic library search path, >### LD_LIBRARY_PATH, to point to the build directory: >### setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH `pwd`:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH; cd t; ./perl >harness >### LD_LIBRARY_PATH=`pwd`:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH; export LD_LIBRARY_PATH; cd >t; ./perl harness >### export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=`pwd`:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH; cd t; ./perl >harness >### for csh-style shells, like tcsh; or for traditional/modern >### Bourne-style shells, like bash, ksh, and zsh, respectively. >u=10.40 s=5.69 cu=768.08 cs=172.31 scripts=938 tests=117578 >*** Error code 1 > >Stop in /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8/work/perl-5.8.8. >*** Error code 1 > >Stop in /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8/work/perl-5.8.8. >*** Error code 1 > >Stop in /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8/work/perl-5.8.8. >*** Error code 1 > >Stop in /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8. >sunny# t/op/pack.................................# Failed at op/pack.t >line 631 >t/op/pack.................................#: Command not found. ># Failed at op/pack.t line 631 >FAILED at test 514 > > > >[7] Cleaning up the ports directory was a really good idea, but it could >have been done a little more completely. Why weren't the language-ports >like 'korean' put into their own subdirectory? I had similar problems on one server that had an old ports tree then updated ports. I ended up having to completely delete and re-download the entire ports tree, and manually remove portupgrade and portmanager and reinstall them. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support.