Re: gdb plist issue on CentOS 7

[Jason Bacon <outpaddling%yahoo.com@localhost>]

On 2019-03-30 13:57, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
> On 30.03.2019 16:01, Jason Bacon wrote:
> > On 2019-03-30 08:56, Jason Bacon wrote:
> > > On 2019-03-30 00:54, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
> > > > On 30.03.2019 03:24, Jason Bacon wrote:
> > > > > Anyone install gdb on Linux recently?
> > > > >
> > > > > => Checking file-check results for gdb-8.1nb2
> > > > > ERROR: ************************************************************
> > > > > ERROR: The following files are in
> > > > > /home/bacon/Pkgsrc/pkgsrc-2019-03-25/devel/gdb/work/.destdir/home/bacon/Pkgsrc/pkg-2019-03-25
> > > > >
> > > > > but not in the PLIST:
> > > > > ERROR:
> > > > > /home/bacon/Pkgsrc/pkgsrc-2019-03-25/devel/gdb/work/.destdir/home/bacon/Pkgsrc/pkg-2019-03-25/man/man1/gcore.1
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > *** Error code 1
> > > > >
> > > > > Stop.
> > > > > bmake.bin[1]: stopped in /home/bacon/Pkgsrc/pkgsrc-2019-03-25/devel/gdb
> > > > > *** Error code 1
> > > > >
> > > > > Wondering if plist just needs an update, or if this is specific to
> > > > > RHEL/CentOS.
> > > > gcore is enable in general for Linux and shall be shipped with it. Not
> > > > all OSs implement and enable it, there is enabled support for NetBSD
> > > > too, but it needs more work.
> > > The gcore binary is installing on both NetBSD and CentOS.
> > >
> > > What's odd is that the man page installs on CentOS but not NetBSD. I'm
> > > wondering if the same is true on other Linux platforms.
> > >
> > > The problem appears to be in doc/Makefile.in:
> > >
> > > install-man1: $(MAN1S)
> > >          test -z "$(man1dir)" || $(mkinstalldirs) "$(DESTDIR)$(man1dir)"
> > >          @list='$(MAN1S)'; for p in $$list; do \
> > >            if test
> > > "x$(HAVE_NATIVE_GCORE_TARGET)$(HAVE_NATIVE_GCORE_HOST)" = x \
> > >                    -a "$$p" = gcore.1; then \
> > >              continue; \
> > >            fi; \
> > >
> > >  From configure.nat it looks like this work for NetBSD:
> > >
> > >      nbsd*)
> > >          NATDEPFILES='fork-child.o fork-inferior.o inf-ptrace.o'
> > >          HAVE_NATIVE_GCORE_HOST=1
> > >          ;;
> > >
> > > So I think the question is why gcore.1 is not being installed on NetBSD.
> > BTW, this is not worth much effort.  8.1 has a vulnerability and 8.3 is
> > available upstream.  Unless there's a very simple fix, we might want to
> > just wait and upgrade after the branch.
>  From a NetBSD point of view it's not worth doing anything with it,
> unless we will make gdb-gcore work. Feel free to adjust the PLIST just
> to get it building for now.
Thanks - I think I'll leave it alone for now and instead get an 8.3 
package started in wip after the branch.

There's no urgency for me to have a binary package available.

Cheers,

    JB