Re: libtool weirdness with "error: specify a tag with '--tag'"

[PHO <pho%cielonegro.org@localhost>]

On 10/2/23 01:46, Rhialto wrote:
> I'm building with the new stable branch, and I'm starting pretty fresh
> because one thing now needs gcc 12. So I deleted all packages from my
> chroot.
>
> Before I did that I had already errors like
>
> --- fill.lo ---
> libtool: compile: unable to infer tagged configuration
> --- errno.lo ---
> libtool:   error: specify a tag with '--tag'
> *** [errno.lo] Error code 1
>
> bmake[1]: stopped in /tmp/pkgsrc/devel/libelf/default/libelf-0.8.13/lib
>
> in this case via the dependency chain
>
>      devel/libelf
>      graphics/MesaLib
>      devel/SDL
>      graphics/SDL_image
>
> The weird thing is that if I suspend the build (I'm using pkgchkxx) and
> go to devel/libelf; make clean; make, then it works!?
>
> libtool-base was freshly built; I previously blamed the problems on that
> (gcc10 had a minor upgrade but libtool was not updated)
>
> There must be something creeping in, from the dependency chain, that
> messes with libtool. How can otherwise a rebuild (even with make clean)
> succeed the second time? Or does pkgchkxx do something weird to
> contribute?

I just updated wip/pkgchkxx. Previously it was hardcoded to use 
devel/bmake to build packages, but now it uses whatever ${MAKE} was set 
to at the time when pkgchkxx was built. I hope it helps.