ports/56955: /usr/ports/lang/ezm3 broken big/little endian detection problem

[Matthias Meyser]

>Number:         56955
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       /usr/ports/lang/ezm3 broken big/little endian detection problem
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Sep 17 08:40:13 PDT 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Matthias Meyser
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE i386
>Organization:
XeNET GmbH, Clausthal
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD fbsd.intern 4.8-STABLE FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE #8: Fri Jun 20 16:47:26 CEST 2003 root at fbsd.intern:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FBSD i386


>Description:
	configure script of /usr/ports/lang/ezm3 breaks on detecting big/little endian
	encoding.

        make output ollows: 
   
        --------------8<-------------------------------------------------------------
	===>  Extracting for ezm3-1.1
	>> Checksum OK for ezm3/ezm3-1.1-FreeBSD4-boot.tar.bz2.
	>> Checksum OK for ezm3/ezm3-1.1-src.tar.bz2.
	===>  Patching for ezm3-1.1
	
	[.....]
	
	---------- building m3cc in language/modula3/m3compiler ----------
	
	/usr/ports/lang/ezm3/work/ezm3-1.1/src/../boot-FreeBSD4/m3build/FreeBSD4/m3build -T /usr/ports/lang/ezm3/work/ezm3-1.1/src/../m3config/src -F /usr/ports/lang/ezm3/work/ezm3-1.1/src/../FreeBSD4/config.tmpl
	Created "Makefile" in /usr/ports/lang/ezm3/work/ezm3-1.1/language/modula3/m3compiler/m3cc/FreeBSD4
	Configuring libiberty...
	creating cache ../config.cache
	checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
	checking for makeinfo... makeinfo
	
	[.....]
	
	checking for thread.h... no
	checking for pthread.h... yes
	checking for CHAR_BIT... yes
	checking byte ordering... od: conftest.o: Bad file descriptor
	unknown
	configure: error: *** unable to determine endianness
	Configure in /usr/ports/lang/ezm3/work/ezm3-1.1/language/modula3/m3compiler/m3cc/FreeBSD4/gcc failed, exiting.
	mkdir FreeBSD4
	--- building in FreeBSD4 ---
	
	m3build: quake error: quake error: runtime error: Failed to configure m3cc
	
	--procedure--  -line-  -file---
	error              --  <builtin>
	                   78  /usr/ports/lang/ezm3/work/ezm3-1.1/language/modula3/m3compiler/m3cc/src/m3makefile
	
	
	m3build: quake error: quake error: runtime error: m3build failed with error code: 1
	
	--procedure--  -line-  -file---
	error              --  <builtin>
	BuildChunk        164  /usr/ports/lang/ezm3/work/ezm3-1.1/src/m3makefile
	PkgInfo           240  /usr/ports/lang/ezm3/work/ezm3-1.1/src/m3makefile
	                   31  /usr/ports/lang/ezm3/work/ezm3-1.1/src/PACKAGES
	
	gmake: *** [packages] Error 1
	*** Error code 2
	
	Stop in /usr/ports/lang/ezm3.
	===>  Cleaning for ezm3-1.1
        --------------8<-------------------------------------------------------------

>How-To-Repeat:
	cd /usr/ports/lang/ezm3; make;

>Fix:

	Unknown


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>Audit-Trail:
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