Re: pkg/48504: devel/binutils does not build

[Greg Oster <oster%cs.usask.ca@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/48504; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Greg Oster <oster%cs.usask.ca@localhost>
To: Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>
Cc: NetBSD bugtracking <gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost>
Subject: Re: pkg/48504: devel/binutils does not build
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 15:26:10 -0600

 On Tue, 7 Jan 2014 21:20:43 +0100
 Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost> wrote:
 
 > On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 03:40:00PM +0000, Hauke Fath wrote:
 > > Stop.
 > > make: stopped in /var/obj/pkgsrc/devel/binutils/work/binutils-2.24
 > > *** Error code 1
 > > 
 > >    where opcodes/configure.lineno has
 > > 
 > >    3232 int
 > >    3233 main ()
 > >    3234 {
 > >    3235 #ifndef __GNUC__
 > >    3236        choke me
 > >    3237 #endif
 > >    3238 
 > >    3239   ;
 > >    3240   return 0;
 > >    3241 }
 > > 
 > > 
 > > >How-To-Repeat:
 > > 
 > >    Build binutils. Try to, that is.
 > 
 > There is a difference to 2.23.2 a few lines higher, which is:
 > 
 > @@ -3216,7 +3216,7 @@
 >  # We currently only use the version number for the name of any shared
 >  # library.  For user convenience, we always use the same version
 >  # number that BFD is using.
 > -BFD_VERSION=`sed -n -e 's/^.._INIT_AUTOMAKE.*,[        ]*\([^
 > ]*\)[   ]*).*/\1/p' < ${srcdir}/../bfd/configure.in`
 > +BFD_VERSION=`${srcdir}/../bfd/configure --version | sed -n -e
 > '1s,.* ,,p'` am__api_version='1.11'
 
 Using the "BFD_VERSION=`sed -n -e ..." line doesn't change anything for
 me.
  
 > Does anyone remember a shell bug that was fixed post-6-release that
 > might cause trouble here?
 > 
 > Should we use CONFIGURE_SHELL=bash on NetBSD<6.99?
 
 Using "CONFIGURE_SHELL=bash" doesn't fix it either.
 
 I'm on NetBSD/amd64 6.1.2.
 
 Later...
 
 Greg Oster