On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 07:07:12PM +0100, Jeremie Courreges-Anglas wrote: > > So we got recent reports about some gcc ports failing to build for > obscure reasons. The last known failure was spotted by tb@: > > https://pbot.rmdir.de/Br7B606-XUwXsk9LMLLDNA > > The issue is the ugly ansidecl.h header shipped by devel/gdb and > picked up by the compiler instead of the local copy in > ${WRKSRC}/include. This ansidecl.h header is installed as a support > header for other bfd headers. I guess the header installed with > gdb-13.2 doesn't provide anymore the necessary compat defines used in > the affected gcc copies.
Thanks for hunting this down. I verified that this avoids the issue in rsicv-elf/gcc I ran into intermittently. > If we want to ship some recent libbfd support, I think we should do it > from devel/binutils. But right now nothing in the ports tree uses > libbfd, so the easiest way forward is to just drop bfd from devel/gdb. > I have verified that lang/rust still builds with this diff. Makes sense to me. I haven't verified that part. > I might also add fixes to the various devel/*/gcc ports at a later > point, just in case we decide to install libbfd again. That would also make sense. > ok? ok tb
