"base/binutils should not be pulling in any other ports at all"? (That confuses me.)

[Mark Millard]

[Top post going in a somewhat different direction.
Plus I listed the wrong version for bintils, not
6.4, but 2.30 .]

I probably should have referenced the line in
base/binutils/Makefile :

MASTERDIR=      ${.CURDIR}/../../devel/binutils

which in turn brings in references for all the
direct dependencies that devel/binutils normally
has, such as seen via freshports.

This is how things that are missing up front end
up with an attempt to build them. I do not see
anything that effectively would say "disable
the dependencies that devel/binutils indicates".


On 2018-Oct-12, at 5:48 PM, Mark Millard <marklmi at yahoo.com> wrote:

> On 2018-Oct-10, at 3:13 PM, John Baldwin <jhb at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 10/6/18 12:22 PM, Mark Millard via freebsd-toolchain wrote:
>>> [Actually devel/gettext-tools is a build time dependency: it should not be using
>>> libtool: link: /usr/local/bin/powerpc64-unknown-freebsd12.0-gcc --sysroot=. . .
>>> It looks like the /usr/local/lib references are correct but the wrong linker was
>>> being used. About 5 other ports have a similar status for making base/binutils
>>> as a cross build.]
>> 
>> base/binutils should not be pulling in any other ports at all.
> 
> That last quote confuses me still. May be it means
> it is all to be manually managed instead of automatic?
> (The actual build using things link devel/bison on
> the host if base/binutils is to build at all.)
> 
> All versions of binutils have direct build dependencies on:
> 
> math/gmp
> math/mpfr
> devel/bison
> devel/gmake
> 
> as far as I know. Some of those in turn have more
> build dependencies. Some of all that have Runtime
> dependencies and/or library dependencies as well.
> (Host context of usage.)
> 
> The following may not be complete but is suggestive.
> 
> 
> Build dependencies:
> 
> math/gmp: print/texinfo
> devel/bison: devel/m4 print/texinfo devel/gettext-tools lang/perl5.*
> devel/m4: print/texinfo
> misc/help2man: devel/p5-Locale-gettext devel/gmake devel/gettext-tools lang/perl5.*
> devel/p5-Locale-gettext: devel/gettext-tools lang/perl5.*
> print/texinfo: misc/help2man devel/gmake devel/gettext-tools lang/perl5.*
> 
> So removing multiple listings:
> (some runtime and library dependencies not covered yet)
> 
> math/gmp
> math/mpfr
> devel/bison
> devel/gmake
> devel/m4
> misc/help2man
> devel/p5-Locale-gettext
> devel/gettext-tools
> print/texinfo
> lang/perl5.*
> 
> (I'm not explicit about which perl5 version.)
> 
> Runtime dependencies:
> 
> math/gmp: print/indexinfo
> math/mpfr: print/indexinfo
> devel/gmake: print/indexinfo
> devel/m4: print/indexinfo
> misc/help2man: devel/p5-Locale-gettext lang/perl5.* print/indexinfo
> devel/p5-Locale-gettext: lang/perl5.*
> devel/gettext-tools: print/indexinfo
> print/texinfo: lang/perl5.* print/indexinfo
> 
> So this adds, removing multiple listings:
> 
> print/indexinfo
> 
> 
> Library dependencies:
> 
> math/mpfr: math/gmp
> devel/bison: devel/m4 print/indexinfo
> devel/gmake: devel/gettext-runtime
> misc/help2man: devel/gettext-runtime
> devel/p5-Locale-gettext: devel/gettext-runtime
> devel/gettext-tools: devel/gettext-runtime converters/libiconv
> print/texinfo: converters/libiconv devel/gettext-runtime
> devel/gettext-runtime: converters/libiconv
> 
> So this adds, removing multiple listings:
> 
> devel/gettext-runtime
> converters/libiconv
> 
> 
> Putting the 3 lists together I get that all the following
> are used in building any 6.4 or so version of binutils
> that is in ports:

That "6.4" should have been: 2.30

(I inappropriately thought of the gcc version number
originally.)

> math/gmp
> math/mpfr
> devel/bison
> devel/gmake
> devel/m4
> misc/help2man
> devel/p5-Locale-gettext
> devel/gettext-tools
> print/texinfo
> lang/perl5.*
> print/indexinfo
> devel/gettext-runtime
> converters/libiconv
> 
> 
>>  Everytime I've
>> built it it has had no other dependencies beyond pkg.
> 
> I expect the dependencies were already satisfied at
> the time of the attempted build of make/binutils
> and so caused no additional build activity at the
> time.
> 
> My environment tends to have somewhat less than normal
> installed for development-environment type ports. The
> ones that I listed above that I did not have trouble
> with are exactly the ones that were in place beforehand.
> The ones I had trouble with are exactly the ones that
> were not in place beforehand.
> 
>>  As far as I'm aware, 
>> the only ports which work with CROSS_TOOLCHAIN and CROSS_SYSROOT are
>> ports-mgmt/pkg, base/gcc, and base/binutils.
> 
> Good to know.


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