Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2026 15:10:53 +0100 From: Lexi Winter <ivy@freebsd.org> To: current@freebsd.org, pkgbase@freebsd.org Cc: bofh@freebsd.org, bapt@freebsd.org Subject: pkgbase breakage in main due to libucl upgrade Message-ID: <adO-7XKNIoSr0AaM@amaryllis.le-fay.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] hello, as a couple of people already reported[0][1] the pkgbase build is currently broken in main. this affects building packages for any version of FreeBSD when the build host is main abda442d92fd[2] or later. this is not trivial to fix. the issue is that libucl changed the lua bindings in an incompatible way, specifically to disable use of macros (which includes ".include") by default[3]. that breaks the API that the pkgbase build scripts rely on, and those scripts use the host flua. as an immediate fix, i have three diffs for review: - "packages: Fix build with libucl 0.9.3" https://reviews.freebsd.org/D56266 this change, which is backward-compatible with previous versions of lua libucl, fixes the ABI breakage. - "flua: Always build as a bootstrap tool" https://reviews.freebsd.org/D56270 "packages: Always use the bootstrap flua" https://reviews.freebsd.org/D56271 these changes mean we'll use the version of flua and libucl from the source tree to build packages, instead of the host versions, which protects us from future API breaks. if you're running into this issue right now, you can apply the patch from D56266 to fix your build, and optionally the other two diffs if you like (but they aren't required). this has to be done on the src tree being built, *not* the build system. unfortunately, none of these changes fix the general problem which is that we can't build FreeBSD 15.0 on FreeBSD 16-CURRENT. i'm open to other suggestsions here, but i think the best approach is to revert the libucl commit that changed the ABI; while this is a security fix, the only things using flua are in the base system, and none of them should be affected by the issue being fixed. any thoughts? [0] https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-current/2026-April/010080.html [1] https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-pkgbase/2026-April/001284.html [2] https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=abda442d92fdbadcf81c79bc9ddba001d133c429 [3] https://github.com/vstakhov/libucl/commit/8a0294f9eaa4e70342e562cb92792bbe3df90e70 [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHUEABYKAB0WIQSyjTg96lp3RifySyn1nT63mIK/YAUCadO+6QAKCRD1nT63mIK/ YNz7AP0VGjtB3DVG5tXn9u0KVUEprlM9fnW65CZSnudjIR68twEA8RpwlENE7ElS qcMDf5Q5oYN6eqBtgsL201FbJfUKtQ0= =QiIj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----home | help
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