On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 06:34:42PM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote: > On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > > With a freshly downloaded source tree, today I am encountering > > the following problem while building libraries: > > > > cc -o make_keys -nostdinc -I. -I/home/iguana/u0/rizzo/H/src/lib/libncurses >-I/home/iguana/u0/rizzo/H/src/lib/libncurses/../../contrib/ncurses/ncurses >-I/home/iguana/u0/rizzo/H/src/lib/libncurses/../../contrib/ncurses/include -Wall >-DFREEBSD_NATIVE -DNDEBUG -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DTERMIOS >-I/home/iguana/u0/rizzo/H/src/usr/include >/home/iguana/u0/rizzo/H/src/lib/libncurses/../../contrib/ncurses/ncurses/tinfo/make_keys.c > > /tmp/ccqoEyz3.o: In function `main': > > /tmp/ccqoEyz3.o(.text+0x243): undefined reference to `__stdoutp' > > /tmp/ccqoEyz3.o(.text+0x29c): undefined reference to `__stdoutp' > > /tmp/ccqoEyz3.o(.text+0x2cc): undefined reference to `__stdoutp' > > /tmp/ccqoEyz3.o(.text+0x2d2): undefined reference to `__stdinp' > > /tmp/ccqoEyz3.o(.text+0x2e8): undefined reference to `__stdoutp' > > *** Error code 1 > > > > Apparently, this has to do with the fact that make_keys is being > > built using new headers, but old libraries (and we cannot use > > the new ones, we are building them). > > make_keys is apparently being _re_built with new headers and old libraries > due to dependency bugs. It should have been built earlier with old headers > and old libraries, and not rebuilt. Rebuilding build-tools like make_keys > would cause many other problems (e.g., mixing new alpha headers with old > i386 libraries). > Nope, make_keys falls into the 2nd category of build-tools, which do not show themselves up in .depend. I call them "safe". Only cc_tools and miniperl are "unsafe" because they show up in .depend.
What Luigi's script missed is the call to build-tools early, before going with -nostdinc and /usr/src/include headers. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sunbay Software AG, [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message