Re: peripatus build failures....

On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 12:30:37PM +1200, Thomas Munro wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 11:43 AM, Larry Rosenman <ler(at)lerctr(dot)org> wrote:
> > I noticed my buildfarm member peripatus hadn't been building due to me
> > missing a perl library. After I fixed that I get failures on:
> >
> > Buildfarm member peripatus failed on REL9_3_STABLE stage Make
> > Buildfarm member peripatus failed on REL9_4_STABLE stage Make
> > Buildfarm member peripatus failed on REL9_5_STABLE stage Make
> > Buildfarm member peripatus failed on REL9_6_STABLE stage Make
> > Buildfarm member peripatus failed on REL_10_STABLE stage Make
> >
> > HEAD and REL_11_STABLE build fine.
> >
> > These all fail on relocation issues in pgport(strcase*) and possibly
> > others.
> >
> > This is FreeBSD HEAD as of today, clang 6.0.1, lld as the linker.
> >
> > Can someone take a look at these?
> > I've tried making sure all the cache's are clear, etc, same results.
>
> Seems to have something to do with the recent linker toolchain changes
> in FreeBSD. I don't actually understand what's going on here or why
> it doesn't affect REL_11_STABLE and HEAD, but this seems to be some
> kind of explanation + workaround (as used by the ports):
>
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219758
> https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports?view=revision&revision=456635
>
I agree. Is there an easy way I can add this work around to peripatus'
source tree:

It may be that adding "LDFLAGS+= -Wl,-z,notext" (and removing LLD_UNSAFE) will let the port build with lld.

Thanks, Thomas.

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