Re: Can't build www/chromium with pbulk

[Robert Bagdan <kikadf.01%gmail.com@localhost>]

I have no idea, but please try to edit this line in chromium/Makefile:
#TOOLS_PLATFORM.flex= # override the platform definition to use pkgsrc's flex.
to:
TOOLS_PLATFORM.flex= # override the platform definition to use pkgsrc's flex.

I commented out this line with the 145.0.7632.75 update, maybe this
caused the problem.

On Sat, Feb 28, 2026 at 3:28 PM Marc Baudoin <babafou%babafou.eu.org@localhost> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Roland Illig <roland.illig%gmx.de@localhost> écrit :
> > Am 22.02.2026 um 18:49 schrieb Marc Baudoin:
> > > For the last week, I've been unable to build www/chromium with
> > > pbulk.  I get this in the
> > > pbulk/mnt/bulklog/chromium-145.0.7632.109/build.log file :
> > >
> > > make[1]: "/usr/pkgsrc/mk/tools/replace.mk" line 160: Malformed conditional ((${_TOOLS_DEPMETHOD.flex} == "TOOL_DEPENDS") &&  defined(_TOOLS_DEPMETHOD.lex))
> > > ...
> > > make: "/usr/bin/make -C ../../www/esbuild -V DISTNAME" returned non-zero status
> >
> > This is strange. Why would "make -V DISTNAME" in www/esbuild succeed in
> > the configure stage of www/chromium but not in the build stage? And why
> > would _TOOLS_DEPMETHOD.flex be undefined at that point in www/esbuild,
> > thus leading to the misleading error message "Malformed conditional"?
> >
> > Maybe the following commands give you a hint:
> >
> > $ make -C www/chromium show-all
>
> When running this from the pbulk sandbox (with an up-to-date
> pkgsrc tree, including www/chromium updated to the latest
> version, 145.0.7632.116), I get:
>
> make[1]: "/usr/pkgsrc/mk/tools/replace.mk" line 160: Malformed conditional ((${_TOOLS_DEPMETHOD.flex} == "TOOL_DEPENDS") &&  defined(_TOOLS_DEPMETHOD.lex))
> make[1]: "/usr/pkgsrc/mk/tools/replace.mk" line 172: Malformed conditional ((${_TOOLS_DEPMETHOD.gm4} == "TOOL_DEPENDS") &&  defined(_TOOLS_DEPMETHOD.m4))
> make[1]: Fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
> make: "/usr/bin/make -C ../../www/esbuild -V DISTNAME" returned non-zero status
> make[1]: "/usr/pkgsrc/mk/tools/replace.mk" line 160: Malformed conditional ((${_TOOLS_DEPMETHOD.flex} == "TOOL_DEPENDS") &&  defined(_TOOLS_DEPMETHOD.lex))
> make[1]: "/usr/pkgsrc/mk/tools/replace.mk" line 172: Malformed conditional ((${_TOOLS_DEPMETHOD.gm4} == "TOOL_DEPENDS") &&  defined(_TOOLS_DEPMETHOD.m4))
> make[1]: Fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
> make: "/usr/bin/make -C ../../www/esbuild -V DISTNAME" returned non-zero status
> make: "/usr/pkgsrc/mk/fetch/bsd.fetch-vars.mk" line 69: Wrong number of words (15) in .for substitution list with 4 variables
> make[1]: "/usr/pkgsrc/mk/tools/replace.mk" line 160: Malformed conditional ((${_TOOLS_DEPMETHOD.flex} == "TOOL_DEPENDS") &&  defined(_TOOLS_DEPMETHOD.lex))
> make[1]: "/usr/pkgsrc/mk/tools/replace.mk" line 172: Malformed conditional ((${_TOOLS_DEPMETHOD.gm4} == "TOOL_DEPENDS") &&  defined(_TOOLS_DEPMETHOD.m4))
> make[1]: Fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
> make: "/usr/bin/make -C ../../www/esbuild -V DISTNAME" returned non-zero status
> make: "/usr/pkgsrc/mk/fetch/github.mk" line 78: Wrong number of words (15) in .for substitution list with 4 variables
> make: Fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
> make: stopped in /usr/pkgsrc/www/chromium
>
> > $ make -C www/chromium debug
>
> Same thing.
>
> That's why I suspect a problem in my pbulk sandbox but all the
> packages other than www/chromium I recently compiled built just
> fine in the same sandbox (including mail/thunderbird,
> misc/libreoffice, www/firefox ans a bunch of others) so I don't
> understand why only www/chromium has that problem.
>
> I started using pbulk just a few months ago so I don't know where
> to look for the source of my problem. Or should I just destroy
> and rebuild the pbulk sandbox? Though I'd prefer to understand
> what's going on there.
>
> > You could try to print the environment or other helpful data in the
> > EB_DISTNAME command, defined in www/chromium/Makefile:21.
>
> make: "/usr/pkgsrc/mk/tools/replace.mk" line 160: Malformed conditional ((${_TOOLS_DEPMETHOD.flex} == "TOOL_DEPENDS") &&  defined(_TOOLS_DEPMETHOD.lex))
> make: "/usr/pkgsrc/mk/tools/replace.mk" line 172: Malformed conditional ((${_TOOLS_DEPMETHOD.gm4} == "TOOL_DEPENDS") &&  defined(_TOOLS_DEPMETHOD.m4))
> make: Fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
> make: stopped in /usr/pkgsrc/www/esbuild
>
> > Are there any leftover files in the pkgsrc work directory?
>
> In <pbulk sandbox>/tmp/work, I have:
>
> - chromium-145.0.7632.116 (whole www/chromium source code)
> - a vendor directory containing a bunch of subdirectories with a
>   lot of Rust source files
>
> > To get better error messages from /usr/bin/make, you could rebuild
> > usr.bin/make from NetBSD-current and temporarily install it as
> > /usr/bin/make. This will replace "Malformed conditional" with "Undefined
> > variable" and print stack traces.
>
> Will try that next week.
>
> Thanks.



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