Re: lang/ghc90 - strange build problem

[Chavdar Ivanov <ci4ic4%gmail.com@localhost>]

Great, thanks!

On Sun, 23 May 2021 at 07:33, PHO <pho%cielonegro.org@localhost> wrote:
>
> On 5/23/21 2:44 PM, PHO wrote:
> > On 5/23/21 12:54 AM, Chavdar Ivanov wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> My previous build of this package was on the 10th of May, nothing to report.
> >>
> >> Today's build - as part of a rolling replace - failed with
> >> ...
> >> ld: cannot find -ltinfo
> >> `gcc' failed in phase `Linker'. (Exit code: 1)
> >> gmake[1]: *** [utils/ghc-pkg/ghc.mk:61:
> >> utils/ghc-pkg/dist/build/tmp/ghc-pkg] Error 1
> >> ...
> >>
> >> There is no libtinfo.so anywhere on this amd64 -current system, so I
> >> had a further look. It turned out the configure process in
> >> work/ghc-9.0.1/libraries/terminfo incorrectly finds the presence of
> >> libtinfo; I repeated the exact command used by the configure script,
> >> it was indeed successful, but the resulting conftest executable was
> >> linked against libterminfo.so, so it seems the linker somehow replaces
> >> the command line '-ltinfo' with '-lterminfo', I couldn't find how and
> >> where. Further is the build process the above 'trick'  doesn't work
> >> and the linker fails.
> >
> > Hmm that's strange... The only changes I recently committed are about
> > NetBSD/aarch64, and nothing about curses/terminfo/termcap have been
> > changed for a while. mk/terminfo.builtin.mk and mk/termcap.builtin.mk
> > are only files that can possibly replace -ltinfo with -lterminfo, but
> > lang/ghc90 includes neither of them.
> >
> > Does anyone else see the problem happening? I have no idea why this happens.
> >
>
> Found the cause of the problem. It was lang/llvm/buildlink3.mk that was
> including mk/terminfo.buildlink3.mk. Committed a fix.



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