Re: pkg/55398: devel/bmake broken on FreeBSD

[David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/55398; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/55398: devel/bmake broken on FreeBSD
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2020 08:58:55 +0000

 On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 02:00:00PM +0000, Hauke Fath wrote:
  > 	After updating devel/bmake, I am greeted with
  > 
  > %  pwd
  > /misc/pkgsrc/devel/bmake
  > % bmake
  > ===> Installing dependencies for bmake-20200524nb1
  > ERROR: [depends.mk] Installed package checkperms-1.12 has an
  > ERROR:     object format ``ELF'' which differs from ``a.out''.  Please
  > ERROR:     update the checkperms-1.12 package to a.out.
  > *** Error code 1
  > 
  > Stop.
  > 	
  > 	This message shows up for all builds from then on.
 
 That is bizarre.
 
  > 	Just running bmake from the build directory does not have this
  > 	fallout, so maybe the problem is in the mk files?
 
 That seems likely. Except, none of the .mk files that the bmake
 package installs should be used by pkgsrc, except for sys.mk, which
 is not supposed to contain anything that isn't suitable for everyone
 everywhere in all circumstances.
 
 If you still have the borked bmake and its mk files, what happens if
 you run the borked make without installing it and use -m to point at
 its make library? If that breaks, we at least know what's going on,
 and then maybe try substituting files (try sys.mk first) to see which
 one causes the problem.
 
 -- 
 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost