ftp/curl: FAILURE due to configure: using CFLAGS: -DLDAP_DEPRECATED

[O. Hartmann]

On Thu, 8 Aug 2013 21:06:47 +0200
Dimitry Andric <dim at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On Aug 8, 2013, at 20:02, O. Hartmann <ohartman at zedat.fu-berlin.de>
> wrote:
> > On several most recently update FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT machines the
> > update of port ftp/curl went smoothly, but on exactly one box the
> > portbuild fails with a very strange error:
> > 
> > [...]
> > configure: using CFLAGS: -O2 -pipe -O3 -march=native
> > -DLDAP_DEPRECATED -fno-strict-aliasing configure: CFLAGS error:
> > CFLAGS may only be used to specify C compiler flags, not macro
> > definitions. Use CPPFLAGS for: -DLDAP_DEPRECATED configure: error:
> > Can not continue. Fix errors mentioned immediately above this line.
> > [...]
> > 
> > I haven't set -DLDAP_DEPRECATED nor in /etc/make.conf neither
> > in /etc/src.conf nor can I find in /etc or //usr/local/etc any
> > settings of such a flag for CFLAGS! I delete /usr/ports/Mk
> > and /usr/ports/Templates and checked them out again via subversion,
> > but this mysterious CFLAGS  setting is sticky like hell.
> 
> This is most likely because you are building the curl port with the
> LDAP option on.  Whenever this option is on, the port defines
> USE_OPENLDAP=yes, and this pulls in /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.ldap.mk, which
> has (around line 66):
> 
> CFLAGS+=    -DLDAP_DEPRECATED
> 
> It is a GNU convention to use CPPFLAGS for preprocessor-specific
> compiler options, but the level of checking in this configure script
> is overdoing it a little bit, in my opinion.
> 
> We can't just change the above line to read CPPFLAGS+=
> -DLDAP_DEPRECATED, since a lot of other software does not use nor
> cares about CPPFLAGS.
> 
> Probably the easiest workaround for your case, if you can miss LDAP
> support, is to just turn off the LDAP option.
> 
> -Dimitry

Thanks,
disabled the option. I wasn't aware of the fact that I had choosen the
LDAP option.

Without, curl compiles well. My fault ( I should have checked the
options on the boxes were it compiled earlier).


Oliver

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