Re: Bootstrap problem under Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex [SOLVED]

["Ian R. Justman" <ianj%ian-justman.com@localhost>]

Ian R. Justman wrote:
> I fixed this issue with the glibc 2.8 patch I found with some Googling, 
> so this error does not come up anymore.
>
> New problem:
>
> I try to bootstrap again, and I'm still not getting everything working.
>
> Under Fedora 9, bmake builds as it should, but then, it switches gears, 
> showing this:
>
> => Configuring and building libnbcompat
> configure: WARNING: If you wanted to set the --build type, don't use 
> --host.
>     If a cross compiler is detected then cross compile mode will be used.
> checking build system type...
>
> And just sits there as if it went off into Lala Land with the load 
> accordingly pegged since gcc is still in the R state.
>
> Under Ubuntu Intrepid Ibis, I get:
>
> gcc -O2 -D_PATH_DEFSYSPATH=\"/usr/pkgsrc/bootstrap/work/share/mk\" -I. 
> -I/usr/pkgsrc/bootstrap/work/bmake -DHAVE_CONFIG_H  -I../../libnbcompat 
> -I/usr/pkgsrc/bootstrap/work/bmake/missing -DNEED_HOST_CDEFS_H 
> -DMAKE_NATIVE  -DSIGNAL_FLAGS=SA_RESTART  -Werror   -I../../libnbcompat 
> -c /usr/pkgsrc/bootstrap/work/bmake/arch.c
> cc1: warnings being treated as errors
> /usr/pkgsrc/bootstrap/work/bmake/arch.c: In function Arch_Touch:
> /usr/pkgsrc/bootstrap/work/bmake/arch.c:1036: error: ignoring return 
> value of fwrite, declared with attribute warn_unused_result
>
> I somehow suspect the latter might be a distribution setting, but then, 
> I dunno.  I wouldn't know about the former (I don't use Fedora for any 
> use other than the need to test something to confirm whether something 
> isn't a distro problem).
>
> Any insight would be helpful.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --Ian.

I tried a different approach per another message that was sent to the list:

CFLAGS="-U_FORTIFY_SOURCE" ./bootstrap

The system bootstraps properly under Ubuntu Intrepid Ibis now.  It still 
goes into Lala Land under Fedora, but I don't intend to investigate that 
one any further because I do not use Fedora with any regularity.

One thing I also had to do under Ubuntu is use some other shell, in this 
case, I used the Korn Shell (apt-get install ksh), though PDKSH (apt-get 
install pdksh) and ZSH (apt-get install zsh) also appear to work.  I 
haven't tried any other shells yet, but I used the Korn Shell family to 
bootstrap pkgsrc on my Linux boxen.

Hope this helps.

--Ian.

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Ian R. Justman
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