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Grabbing a set.
I think it is safe to ignore (that is remove from elinks) charset.alias, because it only contains comments. for /usr/share/locale/locale.alias it's a bit different. It seems elinks wants to associate some different associations: -bokmal nb_NO.ISO-8859-1 -bokm?l nb_NO.ISO-8859-1 +bokmal no_NO.ISO-8859-1 +bokm?l no_NO.ISO-8859-1 catalan ca_ES.ISO-8859-1 croatian hr_HR.ISO-8859-2 czech cs_CZ.ISO-8859-2 @@ -47,7 +46,7 @@ galician gl_ES.ISO-8859-1 german de_DE.ISO-8859-1 greek el_GR.ISO-8859-7 -hebrew he_IL.ISO-8859-8 +hebrew iw_IL.ISO-8859-8 hrvatski hr_HR.ISO-8859-2 hungarian hu_HU.ISO-8859-2 icelandic is_IS.ISO-8859-1 @@ -61,9 +60,9 @@ korean.euc ko_KR.eucKR ko_KR ko_KR.eucKR lithuanian lt_LT.ISO-8859-13 -no_NO nb_NO.ISO-8859-1 -no_NO.ISO-8859-1 nb_NO.ISO-8859-1 -norwegian nb_NO.ISO-8859-1 +nb_NO no_NO.ISO-8859-1 +nb_NO.ISO-8859-1 no_NO.ISO-8859-1 +norwegian no_NO.ISO-8859-1 nynorsk nn_NO.ISO-8859-1 polish pl_PL.ISO-8859-2 portuguese pt_PT.ISO-8859-1 I wouldn't like to overwrite the system version. elinks is now in www-client. I made a patch that prevents elinks from installing the offending files. Elinks seems to run happily afterwards. The patch is quite a hacky solution, but it is reasonable.
Created attachment 62352 [details, diff] hack to prevent installing offending files
You'll find a good number of ebuilds with this problem - as you did here, we've just been deleting the offending charset.alias and locale.alias providing that the package works fine without their version. In order to keyword this package, it needs to be tested with all of the USE flags. I can tell you right now that there is going to be a problem with lua, since the lua ebuild needs to be fixed. Please see Bug #49309 for details. A user submitted a patch in comment 11 of that bug, so all that needs to be done is to test the patch. Since the bug is so old, it seems apparent to me that the package maintainer has no interest in fixing it himself. We want lua version 5.0.2-r1.
how can I test that lua? I just installed it, and let elinks compile with lua. It seems to like it very much. Apart from the 50 million warnings that I get, everything goes without a glitch. Configure seems to be very happy about it too: configure:6657: checking for Lua configure:6695: gcc -o conftest -pipe -Wall -rdynamic conftest.c -llua -llualib -lm -ldl -lbz2 -lexpat 1>&5 powerpc-apple-darwin8-gcc-4.0.0: unrecognized option '-rdynamic' configure:6731: checking for lauxlib.h configure:6741: gcc -E conftest.c >/dev/null 2>conftest.out configure:6770: checking for lua_pcall configure:6798: gcc -o conftest -pipe -Wall -rdynamic conftest.c -llua -llualib -lm -ldl -lbz2 -lexpat 1>&5 powerpc-apple-darwin8-gcc-4.0.0: unrecognized option '-rdynamic' configure:6830: checking for LUA 5 or better configure:6839: gcc -o conftest -pipe -Wall -rdynamic conftest.c -llua -llualib -lm -ldl -lbz2 -lexpat 1>&5 powerpc-apple-darwin8-gcc-4.0.0: unrecognized option '-rdynamic'
zlib and ssl work (tested) ipv6 and lua compile (can't/(don't know how to) test them) guile fails to compile with linker errors, see below X works (how to test this?) gpm says (-gpm) and doesn't allow to be enabled (makes sense to me on OSX somehow) with-guile: /usr/bin/ld: multiple definitions of symbol _environ /usr/lib/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin8/4.0.0/../../../crt1.o definition of _environ in section (__DATA,__data) /usr/lib/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin8/4.0.0/../../../libguile.a(posix.o) definition of _environ in section (__DATA,__data) collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[3]: *** [elinks] Error 1 Another problem I can see, is that guile needs at least readline 4.1. Unless someone knows what readline is available with Tiger by default and whether that readline is enough for guile, it is bound to require you to install a readline package to overwrite the system supplied one (which is a collision detect issue).
Created attachment 62488 [details, diff] configure script patch Small patch that makes configure able to 'see' that -rdynamic does NOT work on darwin with gcc4. The problem is in gcc giving a warning and just ignoring the flag. This patch 'listens' to the warning so it disables -rdynamic and prevents a bunch of the same problems in the future.
Some interesting info on with or without X flag: http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/elinks-dev/2004-January/000754.html About the -rdynamic: http://lists.apple.com/archives/Unix-porting/2005/Feb/msg00025.html because the linking still goes wrong: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2002-January/023730.html however I can't get it to link it, so maybe if someone has an idea? I'm pretty much fed up with it for now. Since guile support is quite experimental according to configure's output, I wouldn't care to diss it.
Created attachment 62494 [details, diff] more rigorous configure script patch Maybe this day wasn't completely in vain... Removal of the whole -rdynamic check, and a simple addition of -Xlinker -m to ignore a linker problem with multiple definitions.
Created attachment 62495 [details, diff] changes made to the ebuild to activate the patch ohw man, after a whole day, we got elinks compiling and running with all possible use flags turned on. hooray.
*** Bug 79535 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Nice work on that patch. Xterm behaves properly with elinks now. However, when I run elinks (elinks http://www.google.com), I get the following: INTERNAL ERROR at renderer.c:309: document http://www.google.com/ to format not found INTERNAL ERROR at view.c:940: assertion doc_view && doc_view->document failed! Bus error This happens both in Terminal.app as well as Xterm.
Hmmm, maybe I should recompile again. It just works for me.
I checked again: # emerge -pv elinks These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] www-client/elinks-0.10.5 -X* (-gpm) +guile -ipv6* -lua* -ssl* -zlib* 0 kB [1] Total size of downloads: 0 kB Portage overlays: [1] /usr/local/portage and it works flawlessly for me. Do you use Terminal.app or xterm?
Okay. Unfortunately for you, the problem is with one of the CFLAGS I'm using. This is where your scripting talents might serve you well. The only way I know how to deal with this type of thing is to start disabling flags and repeating testing. elinks works just fine with CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe". Here's my CFLAGS: CFLAGS="-O3 -fgcse-sm -funroll-loops -fstrict-aliasing -fsched-interblock -falign-loops=16 -falign- jumps=16 -falign-functions=16 -falign-jumps-max-skip=15 -falign-loops-max-skip=15 -ffast-math - freorder-blocks -freorder-blocks-and-partition -finline-floor -mpowerpc-gpopt -force_cpusubtype_ALL -mcpu=7450 -fPIC -pipe"
that's question 6a and b ;)
Why yes it is. Our general policy to identify the flags that don't work and to get rid of them via the "proper" method - which I'll let you figure out as it's a quiz question. :-)
I'm running into some discussion with myself here. On the one hand there are a zillion of flags you can feed the compiler (only think of what -fast enables), while on the other hand I'd like to prevent compilation failure. Forcing to use a certain CFLAGS (as happens in some ebuilds) seems to non-Gentoo-free to me (if I want to have a gazillion of flags, I should take the disadvantages of that too, right?). However, it is unbarebly for me to test all combinations to find out where a (combination of) flag(s) screws it up in letting the compiler doing stupid things. For me, your flags (without the cpu specific ones) don't even work, ie. gcc can't even compile a configure test with them. Flags that DO work (from -fast): 1) "-O3 -falign-loops-max-skip=15 -falign-jumps-max-skip=15" 2) "-falign-loops=16 -falign-jumps=16 -falign-functions=16 -malign-natural -ffast-math -funroll-loops" 3) "-ftree-loop-linear -ftree-loop-memset -fgcse-sm" 4) "-mcpu=G5 -mpowerpc-gpopt -mtune=G5 -mpowerpc64" combinations: 1) and 2) works 1) and 3) -> compiler bus error "internal compiler error: Bus error" 2) and 3) works 1), 2) and 3) -> compiler bus error 1), 2), 3) and 4) -> compiler bus error -fast -> asserts on run
Whatever the policy may be, Fabian is correct in stating the impossibility of testing all possible CFLAG combinations. You might take a little while to browse through bugzilla and look at all the bugs that are closed as INVALID because of users being overzealous with the ricerizations. IMHO, CFLAGS="-O3 -fgcse-sm -funroll-loops -fstrict-aliasing -fsched-interblock -falign-loops=16 -falign- jumps=16 -falign-functions=16 -falign-jumps-max-skip=15 -falign-loops-max-skip=15 -ffast-math -freorder-blocks -freorder-blocks-and-partition -finline-floor -mpowerpc-gpopt - force_cpusubtype_ALL -mcpu=7450 -fPIC -pipe" is just ridiculous to force on every package in your system...
I generally run wacky CFLAGS to identify any potential CFLAG issues. Fabian: you're correct in stating that you can't test all possible combinations. That would be a bit ridiculous. However, it's un-Gentoo-like to simply force -O2 on everyone. Thus, I personally tend to shoot for a happy medium. I test a few flags that I know from experience are a good bet for breakage. If I can't find it, I close as INVALID. If you do this, it would be nice to tell the user that if they identify flags that break things and report back on it, we would be happy to fix the problem. In this particular case, I'll tell you that the flag that is breaking things is: -fstrict-aliasing. I particularly want you to deal with this type of situation, as it is fairly common, and it is a quiz question after all. I'm *supposed* to be teaching you this stuff. ;-)
I'm sorry... but "-fstrict-aliasing" does *not* break the binary. (at least on my machine) It seems only to cause trouble when -O3 or -O2 is specified as well. If I would simply do some flag-o-matic to remove the "-fstrict-aliasing" flag I would hurt people that don't have "-O3" in their flags. But who knows what other flags it interferes with? Doing dirty hacks like if "-O3" is there, then remove "-fstrict-aliasing" don't really make it sound very cool. In the end I could have decided to drop the optimalisation level to 1 as well. I think I cannot reasonably choose the best solution here, from the user's perspective. I'd rather like to add a warning and stop compilation or something explaining the problem. Again, are we really supposed to make a whole decision tree in bash, or can we just rely on the contract "what you put in, is up to you", since by default the flags are "-O2 -pipe" I think. There is almost nothing that compiles with "-fast" and I don't expect an ebuild to filter "-fast" cause it removes all of the many optimisation features at once. Also an ebuild can't figure out what is actually in "-fast". Moral dilemma!
Okay, if it's only a combination of flags that breaks things, then that is the fault of the user - in this case me. :-) I will go ahead and commit the rest tomorrow. As you can tell, I was really hoping for an example of CFLAG filtering, but that's the way it goes. If you *did* need to filter flags, the necessary functions are in flag-o-matic.eclass, as hopefully you've figured out for the quiz (will look at it this weekend). Good job!
Committed.
