Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/devel/gmake

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 10:14:10AM +0200, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 08:23:16AM +0200, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> > On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 08:22:31AM +0200, Tobias Nygren wrote:
> > > On Tue, 31 May 2016 08:03:54 +0200
> > > Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 01:45:27PM +0800, Paul Goyette wrote:
> > > > > On Tue, 31 May 2016, Richard PALO wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > >Le 31/05/16 07:18, Tobias Nygren a écrit :
> > > > > >>Hi!
> > > > > >>
> > > > > >>I think this update broke www/firefox. It now fails with:
> > > > > >>
> > > > > >>../config/nsinstall -R system_wrappers ../dist
> > > > > >>../config/nsinstall: cannot access system_wrappers: No such file or directory
> > > > > >>
> > > > > >>I tried to manually symlink system_wrappers to the build directory
> > > > > >>but then it failed further down. Not sure if this is limited to out-of-tree
> > > > > >>builds. Reverting to gmake 4.1 seems to solve it.
> > > > > >>
> > > > > >>-Tobias
> > > > > >>
> > > > > >I thought I was the only one experiencing this;) lost the weekend trying to debug this
> > > > > >only to come to more or less the same conclusion.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >yes, seems there are lots of "issues" out there with gmake 4.2 and perhaps it is better to revert
> > > > > >and wait things.
> > > > > 
> > > > > I also ran into this, and discussed it privately with wiz@
> > > > > 
> > > > > So far, no solution other than to revert gmake.
> > > > 
> > > > There are open bug reports with both upstreams, but neither replied.
> > > > 
> > > > gmake:
> > > > 
> > > > http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?48045
> > > > 
> > > > firefox:
> > > > 
> > > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1275547
> > > > 
> > > > It also breaks thunderbird and tor-browser, but that's not surprising,
> > > > since they use similar build structures.
> > > 
> > > I found the pkgsrc-users@ thread after starting this one.
> > > +1 from me for reverting the gmake update until upstream analyzes this
> > > problem.
> > 
> > Go ahead.
> 
> There's
> 
> (an elided upstream commit)
> 
> now. Wanna try if that fixes it?

The patch worked for me, so I've updated gmake to 4.2nb1 with the patch.
 Thomas