Re: updating glib2 on macos fails

[Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost>]

On Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 04:21:58PM +0200, K. Schreiner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'v just cvsup'dated pkgsrc on one of my Macs and started
> pkg_rolling-replace -u to update everything out of date.
> 
> This fails in building /u/NetBSD/pkgsrc/devel/glib2 like so:
> 
> ....
> Checking for function "strncasecmp" : YES
> Header <sys/sysmacros.h> has symbol "major" : NO
> Header <sys/mkdev.h> has symbol "major" : NO
> Header <sys/types.h> has symbol "major" : YES
> Header <dlfcn.h> has symbol "RTLD_LAZY" : YES
> Header <dlfcn.h> has symbol "RTLD_NOW" : YES
> Header <dlfcn.h> has symbol "RTLD_GLOBAL" : YES
> Message: Checking whether to use statfs or statvfs .. statfs
> 
> meson.build:620:2: ERROR: Unknown compiler(s): ['cc']

In meson.build, I see:

   619  if host_system == 'darwin'
   620    add_languages('objc')
   621    objcc = meson.get_compiler('objc')

so at this distance it looks like a meson+clang problem

> clang -v
> Apple clang version 11.0.0 (clang-1100.0.20.17)
> Target: x86_64-apple-darwin18.7.0
> Thread model: posix
> InstalledDir: /Applications/Xcode-beta.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin

Does setting environment variables CC=clang  CXX=clang++  help?


Cheers,

Patrick