Re: lang/ghc90 - strange build problem

[PHO <pho%cielonegro.org@localhost>]

On 5/23/21 2:44 PM, PHO wrote:
> On 5/23/21 12:54 AM, Chavdar Ivanov wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> My previous build of this package was on the 10th of May, nothing to report.
>>
>> Today's build - as part of a rolling replace - failed with
>> ...
>> ld: cannot find -ltinfo
>> `gcc' failed in phase `Linker'. (Exit code: 1)
>> gmake[1]: *** [utils/ghc-pkg/ghc.mk:61:
>> utils/ghc-pkg/dist/build/tmp/ghc-pkg] Error 1
>> ...
>>
>> There is no libtinfo.so anywhere on this amd64 -current system, so I
>> had a further look. It turned out the configure process in
>> work/ghc-9.0.1/libraries/terminfo incorrectly finds the presence of
>> libtinfo; I repeated the exact command used by the configure script,
>> it was indeed successful, but the resulting conftest executable was
>> linked against libterminfo.so, so it seems the linker somehow replaces
>> the command line '-ltinfo' with '-lterminfo', I couldn't find how and
>> where. Further is the build process the above 'trick'  doesn't work
>> and the linker fails.
> 
> Hmm that's strange... The only changes I recently committed are about
> NetBSD/aarch64, and nothing about curses/terminfo/termcap have been
> changed for a while. mk/terminfo.builtin.mk and mk/termcap.builtin.mk
> are only files that can possibly replace -ltinfo with -lterminfo, but
> lang/ghc90 includes neither of them.
> 
> Does anyone else see the problem happening? I have no idea why this happens.
> 

Found the cause of the problem. It was lang/llvm/buildlink3.mk that was
including mk/terminfo.buildlink3.mk. Committed a fix.