A devel/freebsd-gcc*/Makefile suggestion to avoid base/binutil preventing freebsd-gcc* builds

[Mark Millard]

On 2019-Dec-31, at 16:37, John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 12/26/19 7:54 PM, Mark Millard wrote:
>> Context: devel/freebsd-gcc* (for example)
>> using:
>> 
>>                --with-as=${LOCALBASE}/bin/${BU_PREFIX}-as \
>>                --with-ld=${LOCALBASE}/bin/${BU_PREFIX}-ld
>> 
>> The likes of ${BU_PREFIX}-ld possibly also
>> exists someplace else on the path in use.
>> So I suggest that the BUILD_DEPENDS and
>> RUN_DEPENDS cause the full path to be
>> checked so that the full path will be
>> created if they do not exist already.
>> So, using devel/freebsd-gcc9 as an example,
>> . . .
>> 
>> 
>> # svnlite diff /usr/ports/devel/freebsd-gcc9/
>> Index: /usr/ports/devel/freebsd-gcc9/Makefile
>> ===================================================================
>> --- /usr/ports/devel/freebsd-gcc9/Makefile	(revision 520539)
>> +++ /usr/ports/devel/freebsd-gcc9/Makefile	(working copy)
>> @@ -16,8 +16,8 @@
>> LIB_DEPENDS=	libgmp.so:math/gmp \
>> 		libmpfr.so:math/mpfr \
>> 		libmpc.so:math/mpc
>> -BUILD_DEPENDS=	${BU_PREFIX}-as:devel/binutils@${TARGETARCH}
>> -RUN_DEPENDS=	${BU_PREFIX}-as:devel/binutils@${TARGETARCH}
>> +BUILD_DEPENDS=  ${LOCALBASE}/bin/${BU_PREFIX}-as:devel/binutils@${TARGETARCH}
>> +RUN_DEPENDS=    ${LOCALBASE}/bin/${BU_PREFIX}-as:devel/binutils@${TARGETARCH}
>> 
>> FLAVORS=	aarch64 amd64 i386 mips mips64 powerpc powerpc64 riscv64 sparc64
>> TARGETARCH=	${FLAVOR}
>> 
>> This avoids later not finding the file via
>> the full path in such contexts.
> 
> I don't see why this would ever be the case that we'd have, say,
> x86_64-unknown-freebsd13.0-ld anywhere but in LOCALBASE from the
> amd64-binutils package.
> 
> base/binutils only installs /usr/bin/ld and /usr/${BUTARGET}/bin/ld.
> It doesn't install a BUTARGET-ld binary anywhere.  I might end up
> axeing /usr/BUTARGET/bin from the base/binutils package.  I've
> trimmed most of the similar type files from base/gcc6 recently.

Good to know. Thanks.

(My use goes back to when base/binutils did put in place
the likes of /usr/bin/BUTARGET-ld --as reported in a
bugzilla comment back in 2018-Feb. So I'd seen the
problem in the past and had to work around it.)

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Mark Millard
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