Re: peripatus build failures....

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

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