Why lang/gcc9 depends native-binutils ?

Mark Millard marklmi at yahoo.com
Wed Jul 22 08:03:29 UTC 2020



On 2020-Jul-22, at 00:23, KIRIYAMA Kazuhiko <kiri at truefc.org> wrote:

> Hi, Mark
> 
> On Tue, 21 Jul 2020 17:51:41 +0900,
> Mark Millard via freebsd-ports wrote:
>> 
>> KIRIYAMA Kazuhiko kiri at truefc.org wrote on
>> Tue Jul 21 02:33:25 UTC 2020 :
>> 
>>> checking for iconv declaration... 
>>>         extern size_t iconv (iconv_t cd, char * *inbuf, size_t *inbytesleft, char * *outbuf, size_t *outbytesleft);
>>> *** BFD does not support target native-unknown-freebsd13.0.
>>> *** Look in bfd/config.bfd for supported targets.
>>> gmake[3]: *** [Makefile:3563: configure-binutils] Error 1
>>> gmake[3]: Leaving directory '/var/ports/work/usr/ports/devel/binutils/work-native/binutils-2.33.1'
>>> gmake[2]: *** [Makefile:851: all] Error 2
>>> gmake[2]: Leaving directory '/var/ports/work/usr/ports/devel/binutils/work-native/binutils-2.33.1'
>>> ===> Compilation failed unexpectedly.
>>> Try to set MAKE_JOBS_UNSAFE=yes and rebuild before reporting the failure to
>>> the maintainer.
>>> *** Error code 1
>> 
>> lang/gcc9/Makefile references binutils via:
>> 
>> BUILD_DEPENDS+= ${LOCALBASE}/bin/as:devel/binutils
>> RUN_DEPENDS+=   ${LOCALBASE}/bin/as:devel/binutils
>> . . .
>> USE_BINUTILS=   yes
>> 
>> The BUILD_DEPENDS and RUN_DEPENDS references to
>> binutils are to the assembler that binutils
>> generates and installs. So gcc9 needs to be able
>> to use that assembler at both gcc9 build-time and
>> gcc9 run-time.
>> 
>> The notation leaves the FLAVOR implicit/empty and
>> so should lead to devel/binutils/Makefile using
>> its line:
>> 
>> FLAVOR?=        native
>> 
>> to assign the "native" for its own internal logic
>> to use.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Hmm. The "target native-unknown-freebsd13.0" looks
>> very odd to me. The only lines in the devel/binutils
>> Makefile to deal with "unknown-" text directly are:
>> 
>> # grep -r unknown- /usr/ports/devel/binutils/
>> /usr/ports/devel/binutils/Makefile:BUTARGET?=	${PKGNAMEPREFIX}unknown-${OPSYS:tl}${OSREL}
>> /usr/ports/devel/binutils/Makefile:BUTARGET=	x86_64-unknown-${OPSYS:tl}${OSREL}
>> 
>> (I'll later deal with an indirection where "_" is
>> replaced by "-".)
>> 
>> Only the 1st line of that pair would potentially form
>> "native-unknown-" text.
>> 
>> So looking at the context of the first line I find
>> (". . ." for omitted lines):
>> 
>> FLAVOR?=        native
>> . . .
>> .if ${FLAVOR} != native
>> PKGNAMEPREFIX=  ${FLAVOR:C/_/-/g}-
>> PLIST=          ${PKGDIR}/pkg-plist-${FLAVOR:C/_/-/g}
>> 
>> .if ${PKGNAMEPREFIX:M*-*-}
>> BUTARGET?=      ${PKGNAMEPREFIX}${OPSYS:tl}${OSREL}
>> .else
>> BUTARGET?=      ${PKGNAMEPREFIX}unknown-${OPSYS:tl}${OSREL}
>> .endif
>> 
>> . . .
>> 
>> CONFIGURE_ARGS+=        --disable-shared \
>>                        --target=${BUTARGET}
>> .endif
>> 
>> 
>> (That is also the only instance of "--target=" in the
>> Makefile.)
>> 
>> The ${FLAVOR} != native test should mean that the code
>> is not used for FLAVOR being exactly "native".
>> 
>> There is a separate code block for:
>> 
>> .if ${FLAVOR} == native
>> BUREMOVE=       coffdump \
>>                dlltool \
>>                dllwrap \
>>                nlmconv \
>>                srconv \
>>                sysdump \
>>                windmc \
>>                windres
>> USES+=          localbase
>> CONFIGURE_ARGS+=        --with-system-zlib \
>>                        --with-gmp=${LOCALBASE} \
>>                        --with-mpfr=${LOCALBASE} \
>>                        --enable-targets=all \
>>                        --enable-threads=yes
>> INFO=           as \
>>                binutils \
>>                gprof \
>>                bfd \
>>                ld
>> .endif
>> 
>> But that code does not specify a specific target
>> (instead: "--enable-targets=all").
>> 
>> There is the FLAVOR value "riscv32_unknown_elf" that
>> could produce target "riscv32-unknown-elf-freebsd13.0"
>> but that is not what was reported as involved.
>> 
>> I've ignored CROSS_TOOLCHAIN infrastructure as
>> it was not mentioned as being in use.
>> 
>> I do not see how devel/binutils/Makefile would
>> generate "native-unknown-freebsd13.0" text on
>> its own.
>> 
>> 
>> Sorry I've not been able to identify anything for
>> the error.
>> 
>> I'll note that I build ports with poudriere (-devel
>> variant) and have not had the problem in that
>> context.
>> 
> 
> I forgot to say that make target is `package-recursive'. I
> tried to get PKGNAME with package-depends:
> 
> 
> root at jdtpkxb:/usr/ports/lang/gcc9 # make -ki package-depends
> gmp-6.2.0:math/gmp
> indexinfo-0.3.1:print/indexinfo
> mpfr-4.0.2:math/mpfr
> mpc-1.1.0_2:math/mpc
> native-binutils-2.33.1_2,1:devel/binutils
> root at jdtpkxb:/usr/ports/lang/gcc9 # 
> 
> 
> But PKGNAME in devel/binutils is:
> 
> root at jdtpkxb:/usr/ports/devel/binutils # make -VPKGNAME
> binutils-2.33.1_2,1
> root at jdtpkxb:/usr/ports/devel/binutils # 
> 
> I don't know why it is. As far as I see
> devel/binutils/Makefile, FLAVOR default is `native' and
> PKGNAMEPREFIX should be null.
> 
> What happens ?

Hmm. The list from -ki package-depends
is not always specific to one specific
use. For example, on a development machine
where various flavors of binutils have
been built and installed. First I show
the list of various flavors installed:

# pkg info "*binutils*"
aarch64-binutils-2.33.1_2,1
aarch64-none-elf-binutils-2.33.1_2,1
amd64-binutils-2.33.1_2,1
binutils-2.33.1_2,1
powerpc-binutils-2.33.1_2,1
powerpc64-binutils-2.33.1_2,1

(If you do the above does one of the lines
of output have "native-" as a prefix?)

But here is what -ki package-depends
reports for lang/gcc9:

# cd /usr/ports/lang/gcc9/
# make -ki package-depends
gmp-6.2.0:math/gmp
indexinfo-0.3.1:print/indexinfo
mpfr-4.1.0:math/mpfr
mpc-1.1.0_2:math/mpc
aarch64-binutils-2.33.1_2,1:devel/binutils
aarch64-none-elf-binutils-2.33.1_2,1:devel/binutils
amd64-binutils-2.33.1_2,1:devel/binutils
binutils-2.33.1_2,1:devel/binutils
powerpc-binutils-2.33.1_2,1:devel/binutils
powerpc64-binutils-2.33.1_2,1:devel/binutils

Note that I do not get a one prefixed with
"native-"  but I get every one of the installed
flavors of binutils is listed, not just one.

For reference, in my context:

# make -VPKGNAME
binutils-2.33.1_2,1


What happens if you try:

# pkg info native-binutils

? For reference, my context gets:

# pkg info native-binutils
pkg: No package(s) matching native-binutils

# pkg info binutils
binutils-2.33.1_2,1
Name           : binutils
Version        : 2.33.1_2,1
Installed on   : Thu Jan 30 01:34:52 2020 PST
Origin         : devel/binutils
Architecture   : FreeBSD:13:amd64
Prefix         : /usr/local
Categories     : devel
Licenses       : GPLv3, LGPL3
Maintainer     : bapt at FreeBSD.org
WWW            : https://www.gnu.org/software/binutils/
Comment        : GNU binary tools
Options        :
	NLS            : on
	RELRO          : off
	STATIC         : off
Shared Libs required:
	libintl.so.8
Annotations    :
	FreeBSD_version: 1300075
	cpe            : cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.33.1:::::freebsd13:x64:2
	flavor         : native
	repo_type      : binary
	repository     : custom
Flat size      : 658MiB
Description    :
The GNU Binutils are a collection of binary tools. The main ones are:

* ld - the GNU linker.
* as - the GNU assembler.

Most of these programs use BFD, the Binary File Descriptor library, to do
low-level manipulation. Many of them also use the opcodes library to assemble
and disassemble machine instructions.

This port may be used as a replacement for the system binutils and support
features from the latest versions of GCC.

For cross-compilation, see the devel/cross-binutils port.

WWW: https://www.gnu.org/software/binutils/



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