Re: libexecinfo fails to build using clang on Darwin

[Xiyue Deng <manphiz%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 11:44 PM, Xiyue Deng <manphiz%gmail.com@localhost> 
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When trying to build cmake, libexecinfo fails with the following errors:
>
> ----------8<----------
> $ bmake install
> => Bootstrap dependency digest>=20010302: found digest-20121220
> ===> Installing dependencies for libexecinfo-1.1
> => Tool dependency nbpatch-[0-9]*: found nbpatch-20100124
> ===> Creating toolchain wrappers for libexecinfo-1.1
> ===> Configuring for libexecinfo-1.1
> ===> Building for libexecinfo-1.1
> --- execinfo.o ---
> --- execinfo.so ---
> --- execinfo.o ---
> clang -pipe -O2   -c execinfo.c
> --- execinfo.so ---
> clang -pipe -O2   -c -fPIC -DPIC execinfo.c -o execinfo.so
> --- stacktraverse.o ---
> clang -pipe -O2   -c stacktraverse.c
> --- stacktraverse.so ---
> clang -pipe -O2   -c -fPIC -DPIC stacktraverse.c -o stacktraverse.so
> --- libexecinfo_pic.a ---
> building shared object execinfo library
> ar -c -q libexecinfo_pic.a `NM=nm lorder stacktraverse.so execinfo.so
> | tsort -q`
> --- libexecinfo.a ---
> building standard execinfo library
> ar -c -q libexecinfo.a `NM=nm lorder stacktraverse.o execinfo.o | tsort -q`
> --- libexecinfo_pic.a ---
> ranlib libexecinfo_pic.a
> --- libexecinfo.so.1.0 ---
> building shared execinfo library (version 1.0)
> clang -shared  -o libexecinfo.so.1.0    --whole-archive
> libexecinfo_pic.a --no-whole-archive -lm
> --- libexecinfo.a ---
> ranlib libexecinfo.a
> --- libexecinfo.so.1.0 ---
> clang: error: unsupported option '--whole-archive'
> clang: error: unsupported option '--no-whole-archive'
> *** [libexecinfo.so.1.0] Error code 1
>
> bmake: stopped in /Users/dxy/pkgsrc/devel/libexecinfo/work/libexecinfo-1.1
> 1 error
>
> bmake: stopped in /Users/dxy/pkgsrc/devel/libexecinfo/work/libexecinfo-1.1
> *** Error code 2
>
> Stop.
> bmake: stopped in /Users/dxy/pkgsrc/devel/libexecinfo
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop.
> bmake: stopped in /Users/dxy/pkgsrc/devel/libexecinfo
> ----------8<----------
>
> I tried to modify work/.wrapper/tmp/cache and removed args in
> "--whole-archive" and "--no-whole-archive" and it seems to pass, but
> this is not fixing the issue and I'm not sure whether it is still
> producing the correct .a.
>
> Any comment is appreciated.

Forgot to mention, I was using xcode 5.1 on Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks.

$ clang -v
Apple LLVM version 5.1 (clang-503.0.40) (based on LLVM 3.4svn)
Target: x86_64-apple-darwin13.2.0
Thread model: posix