Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/devel/gmake

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 01:45:27PM +0800, Paul Goyette wrote:
> On Tue, 31 May 2016, Richard PALO wrote:
> 
> >Le 31/05/16 07:18, Tobias Nygren a écrit :
> >>Hi!
> >>
> >>I think this update broke www/firefox. It now fails with:
> >>
> >>../config/nsinstall -R system_wrappers ../dist
> >>../config/nsinstall: cannot access system_wrappers: No such file or directory
> >>
> >>I tried to manually symlink system_wrappers to the build directory
> >>but then it failed further down. Not sure if this is limited to out-of-tree
> >>builds. Reverting to gmake 4.1 seems to solve it.
> >>
> >>-Tobias
> >>
> >I thought I was the only one experiencing this;) lost the weekend trying to debug this
> >only to come to more or less the same conclusion.
> >
> >yes, seems there are lots of "issues" out there with gmake 4.2 and perhaps it is better to revert
> >and wait things.
> 
> I also ran into this, and discussed it privately with wiz@
> 
> So far, no solution other than to revert gmake.

There are open bug reports with both upstreams, but neither replied.

gmake:

http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?48045

firefox:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1275547

It also breaks thunderbird and tor-browser, but that's not surprising,
since they use similar build structures.
 Thomas