Fw: pkgsrc GCC failed to build any packages

["hung.nguyengia" <hung.nguyengia%protonmail.com@localhost>]

Just know about the existence of this mailing list. I posted this on pkgsrc-users without useful answers so I forwarded it here.

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On Sunday, July 4th, 2021 at 3:32 PM, hung.nguyengia <hung.nguyengia%protonmail.com@localhost> wrote:

> Both GCC10 and GCC8.
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> The GCC10 case:
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> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-users/2021/06/30/msg034082.html
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> The GCC8 case:
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> checking for %lld and %llu printf() format support... ^C*** Error code 1
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> *** Signal 2
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> *** Signal 2
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> (I have to cancel it).
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> You could see. All of the GCC installed by pkgsrc (lang/gcc10 and lang/gcc8) failed to serve as the compiler for pkgsrc itself. They always fail mysteriously when they are expected to work.
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> Meanwhile pkgsrc Clang (installed by lang/clang) could serve as the pkgsrc compiler just fine.
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> It's getting ridiculous with the GCC8 case. I have these on my mk.conf:
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> #PKGSRC_COMPILER= GCC
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> #GCC_REQD= 8
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> GCCBASE= /test/pkg1/gcc8
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> CC= /test/pkg1/gcc8/bin/gcc
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> CXX= /test/pkg1/gcc8/bin/g++
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> You could see the problem here. You have to comment out the two beginning lines, if you don't any port will fail to build with this error message:
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> ERROR: This package has set PKG_FAIL_REASON:
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> ERROR: No acceptable compiler found for joe-4.6.
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> *** Error code 1
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> Stop.
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> bmake: stopped in /test/pkgsrc/editors/joe