Re: [macppc] x11/gnustep/*: fix make, mark base BROKEN

On Sun, Apr 26 2020, Charlene Wendling <julianaito@posteo.jp> wrote:
> Ping.
>
> On Sat, 18 Apr 2020 17:50:53 +0200
> Charlene Wendling wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> It appears that x11/gnustep/base is broken in the current macppc bulk:
>>
>> > checking whether objc really works... no
>> > I don't seem to be able to use your Objective-C compiler to produce
>> > working binaries! Please check your Objective-C compiler
>> > installation. If you are using gcc-3.x make sure that your
>> > compiler's libgcc_s and libobjc can be found by the dynamic linker
>> > - usually that requires you to play with LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>> > or /etc/ld.so.conf.
>>
>> jca@ met the issue already on sparc64, but his fix did not help on
>> macppc. The diff belows proposes a fix for the above message, that
>> allows base to build [0].
>>
>> So i tried to run several objective-c binaries provided by base,
>> and they all segfault, i'm attaching a backtrace.
>>
>> Some committed PRs [1] [2] should have fixed the issue, so i also
>> tried an update to base-1.27.0, to no avail.
>>
>> I'm proposing here a diff that fixes make and mark base broken.
>> Comments/feedback are welcome,

Recently I have tinkered with libobjc2 on sparc64, but not with the rest
of gnustep. There are a few I'd like to sort out, like MODCLANG_ARCHS
or AS=llvm-as. I'll try to take a look soonish.

>> Charlène.
>>
>>
>> [0] https://bin.charlenew.xyz/macppc/paths/x11/gnustep/base.log
>> [1] https://github.com/gnustep/libs-base/pull/84
>> [2] https://github.com/gnustep/libs-base/pull/91
>>
>>
>> Index: base/Makefile
>> ===================================================================
>> RCS file: /cvs/ports/x11/gnustep/base/Makefile,v
>> retrieving revision 1.75
>> diff -u -p -r1.75 Makefile
>> --- base/Makefile 20 Oct 2019 08:03:00 -0000 1.75
>> +++ base/Makefile 18 Apr 2020 15:46:55 -0000
>> @@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
>> # $OpenBSD: Makefile,v 1.75 2019/10/20 08:03:00 ajacoutot Exp $
>>
>> +BROKEN-powerpc= consumers segfault at runtime
>> +
>> COMMENT= GNUstep base library
>>
>> DISTNAME= gnustep-base-1.26.0
>> Index: make/Makefile
>> ===================================================================
>> RCS file: /cvs/ports/x11/gnustep/make/Makefile,v
>> retrieving revision 1.56
>> diff -u -p -r1.56 Makefile
>> --- make/Makefile 20 Oct 2019 08:03:03 -0000 1.56
>> +++ make/Makefile 18 Apr 2020 15:46:55 -0000
>> @@ -36,7 +36,8 @@ CONFIGURE_ARGS= --with-layout=openbsd \
>> --with-objc-lib-flag=-lobjc2 \
>> --enable-strict-v2-mode
>>
>> -.if ${MACHINE_ARCH} == "amd64" || ${MACHINE_ARCH} == "i386"
>> +.if ${MACHINE_ARCH} == "amd64" || ${MACHINE_ARCH} == "i386" || \
>> + ${MACHINE_ARCH} == "powerpc"
>> WANTLIB = ${COMPILER_LIBCXX}
>> LIBRARY_COMBO = "ng-gnu-gnu"
>> CONFIGURE_ENV += GS_WITH_ARC=1 AS=llvm-as
>

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