Re: pkg/50589 (libarchive build fails during bootstrap on OSF/1)

[David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/50589; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/50589 (libarchive build fails during bootstrap on OSF/1)
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2016 17:16:40 +0000

 On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 11:10:01PM +0000, Jeffrey Armstrong wrote:
  >  I've also updated the upstream bug report.  The following runs 
  >  delightfully well:
  >  
  >  #include <stdio.h>
  >  #include <wchar.h>
  >  
  >  int main(int argc, char *argv[])
  >  {
  >  
  >           printf("size is %d\n", sizeof(wchar_t));
  >           return 0;
  >  }
  >  
  >  and sizeof(wchar_t) works fine.
  >  
  >  As I suggested, something is wrong with the compiler flags if you check 
  >  the config.log file.  If it doesn't work, I guess it doesn't work, and 
  >  OSF/1 support can be dropped from pkgsrc.
 
 It should be made to work, and it shouldn't be difficult to do so. If
 you have a chance, try the following hack:
 
 Index: files/configure
 ===================================================================
 RCS file: /cvsroot/pkgsrc/archivers/libarchive/files/configure,v
 retrieving revision 1.13
 diff -u -r1.13 configure
 --- files/configure	23 Jun 2016 13:39:03 -0000	1.13
 +++ files/configure	25 Jun 2016 17:13:55 -0000
 @@ -15593,7 +15593,7 @@
    return 0;
  }
  _ACEOF
 -if ac_fn_c_try_compile "$LINENO"; then :
 +if ac_fn_c_try_link "$LINENO"; then :
    eval "$as_CACHEVAR=yes"
  else
    eval "$as_CACHEVAR=no"
 
 
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 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost