Re: AIX 7.2 Bootstrap Fails on libarchive

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

On Wednesday, March 6, 2024 10:45:35 PM CET Louis Guillaume wrote:
> On 2/12/24 4:20 PM, Louis Guillaume wrote:
> > Hi All - I'm restarting efforts to get pkgsrc going on AIX again after a 
> > while. In the mean time I have updated the test host to AIX 7.2 (from 
> > 7.1). The last time pkgsrc really worked for me on AIX was back in 2009. 
> > That said - I have been able to bootstrap recently on 7.1, only to have 
> > problems later with other builds due to AIX-ld compatibility issues with 
> > some packages (perl, gettext, others).
> > 
> > Bootstrap now fails at libarchive. Details are at the bottom. My command 
> > line was:
> > 
> > LDFLAGS=-pthread ./bootstrap --prefix=/opt/pkg --abi 64 --compiler=gcc 
> > --full --workdir /opt/pkg/obj/bootstrap
> > 
> > Using # gcc --version
> > gcc (GCC) 10.3.0
> > 
> 
> > unzip/bsdunzip.c:298:2: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before 
> > 'STAILQ_ENTRY'
> >    298 |  STAILQ_ENTRY(pattern) link;
> >        |  ^~~~~~~~~~~~
> > unzip/bsdunzip.c:302:1: warning: data definition has no type or storage 
> > class
> >    302 | STAILQ_HEAD(pattern_list, pattern);
> >        | ^~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> 
> > bmake: stopped in /opt/pkg/obj/bootstrap/libarchive
> > ===> exited with status 2
> > aborted.
> 
> 
> Apparently libarchive/unzip now requires the "STAILQ" functions in 
> sys/queue.h. AIX lacks this. I thought that maybe the libarchive build 
> that's part of the bootstrap needs nbcompat? But nbcompat doesn't seem 
> to have the "STAILQ" functions anyway.
> 
> I'm unsure how to move forward here. Any guidance would be helpful.

Update your tree?

Joerg