Re: strange issues with building ArcticFox - full rebuilds everytime

[Riccardo Mottola <riccardo.mottola%libero.it@localhost>]

Hi,

thanks for looking.

RVP wrote:
> OK. I have the cause and a workaround. You can do a proper fix based 
> on it:
> It's the NetBSD shell, /bin/sh (and also /bin/ksh). On NetBSD's /bin/sh:
>
>         LINENO RANDOM SECONDS START_TIME ToD
>
> change every time you do a `set' and so these will be different for every
> run of `mach build'. This is enough to cause a full rebuild. NetBSD's
> /bin/ksh has RANDOM and SECONDS.
Where is this code? mach? make? configure?
Can it be fixed?


> Setting SHELL=/usr/pkg/bin/dash and CONFIG_SHELL=/usr/pkg/bin/dash 
> doesn't
> seem to help at all, so the workaround is this:
>
> pkgin -y in dash
> cp /usr/pkg/bin/dash ~/bin/sh
> env PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH ./mach build
>
> That causes dash(1) to be used always and everything seems to work 
> without
> a full rebuild.
Hmm... a dirty workaround, to copy in your own directory. I would not 
mind installing an extra shell and using it, but "the pkg way".
I wonder if Firefox 52 and/or current have this issue? Maybe there is a 
patch I can import into ArcticFox.
Most probably inside pkg build it is not usually seen, since it is a one 
time compilation, it affects more developers and tinkerers.
Riccardo