A patch such as the following against app-arch/cabextract-1.2.ebuild is need to allow the package to build on IRIX: --- app-arch/cabextract/cabextract-1.2.ebuild.dist +++ app-arch/cabextract/cabextract-1.2.ebuild @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ src_compile() { # cabextract doesn't think about linking libintl at all. # on interix[35] this means linking fails, since there is no # getopt(), and only the included getopt needs gettext. - [[ ${CHOST} == *-interix[35]* ]] && append-ldflags -lintl + [[ ${CHOST} == *-interix[35]* || ${CHOST} == *-irix* ]] && append-ldflags -lintl econf || die "econf failed" emake || die "emake failed" (This also requires a fixed flag-o-matic.eclass for append-ldflags, as per Bug 254120) ... however, even with the the compiler produces the error: cc -c99 -O2 -n32 -mips4 -r14000 -float_const -use_readonly_const -TARG:isa=mips4:platform=ip35:processor=r14000 -TENV:zeroinit_in_bss=ON -OPT:fast_io=ON:Olimit=8192:reorg_common=ON:swp=ON -LNO:auto_dist=ON:fusion_peeling_limit=8:gather_scatter=2 -diag_error 1035 -woff 1174,1183,1185,1552,3968,3970 -Wl,-s,-x,-n32,-mips4,-rdata_shared,-allow_jump_at_eop,-rpath,/opt/portage/usr/lib:/opt/portage/lib -L/opt/portage/usr/lib -L/opt/portage/lib -lintl -o cabextract cabextract.o md5.o libmspack.a mktime.o getopt.o getopt1.o ld32: WARNING 84 : /opt/portage/usr/lib/libintl.so is not used for resolving any symbol. ld32: ERROR 33 : Unresolved text symbol "libintl_gettext" -- 1st referenced by getopt.o. Use linker option -v to see when and which objects, archives and dsos are loaded. ld32: INFO 152: Output file removed because of error. ... because the IRIX compilers link objects strictly in the order declared - '-lintl' must be the last argument passed to the compiler. If the following command is executed: cc -c99 -O2 -n32 -mips4 -r14000 -float_const -use_readonly_const -TARG:isa=mips4:platform=ip35:processor=r14000 -TENV:zeroinit_in_bss=ON -OPT:fast_io=ON:Olimit=8192:reorg_common=ON:swp=ON -LNO:auto_dist=ON:fusion_peeling_limit=8:gather_scatter=2 -diag_error 1035 -woff 1174,1183,1185,1552,3968,3970 -Wl,-s,-x,-n32,-mips4,-rdata_shared,-allow_jump_at_eop,-rpath,/opt/portage/usr/lib:/opt/portage/lib -L/opt/portage/usr/lib -L/opt/portage/lib -o cabextract cabextract.o md5.o libmspack.a mktime.o getopt.o getopt1.o -lintl ... then the build succeeds. It is possibly related that flag-o-matic outputs a warning that libraries to link against shouldn't be passed via LDFLAGS... how should this be done correctly?
Maybe we should consider hacking up an append-libs function. I hope if -lintl ends up in LIBS that linking goes well on IRIX. append-ldflags for -l stuff is a crude hack anyway, append-libs would be just slightly less dirty.
I implemented append-libs, which appears to work at least for the package I tested on Solaris, and switched to using it for IRIX also. Can you test if that helps?
Yep, perfect - it now merges without any issues without any modifications. The following ebuilds use "append-ldflags ... -l..." and so may likewise need updating to append-libs: app-arch/pdv-1.5.1-r2 app-editors/vile-9.6 app-misc/gcal-3.01-r2 app-misc/screen-4.0.3 app-misc/screen-4.0.3_p20070403 app-portage/portage-utils-0.1.29-r00.1 app-text/aspell-0.60.5 app-text/aspell-0.60.6 app-text/poppler-0.10.3 app-text/poppler-0.8.7 app-text/recode-3.6_p15 app-text/vilistextum-2.6.7 app-text/vilistextum-2.6.9 dev-db/libpq-8.2.6 dev-db/libpq-8.2.7 dev-db/libpq-8.3.1 dev-db/postgresql-8.2.6 dev-db/postgresql-8.2.7 dev-db/postgresql-8.3.1 dev-libs/boost-1.34.1-r2 dev-python/numpy-1.0.4-r2 dev-python/numpy-1.1.1 dev-python/numpy-1.2.1 dev-util/cvsps-2.1 dev-util/subversion-1.4.6-r2 dev-util/subversion-1.5.4 dev-util/subversion-1.5.5 mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2 media-gfx/icoutils-0.26.0 net-analyzer/nessus-core-2.3.1 net-irc/ircii-20060725 sci-misc/tinysvm-0.09-r1 sys-apps/attr-2.4.41 sys-apps/attr-2.4.43 x11-libs/libXpm-3.5.7 x11-libs/openmotif-2.3.1-r1 x11-libs/openmotif-2.3.1.1
ok, cool, we'll have to go through your list.
(In reply to comment #3) > app-text/aspell-0.60.5 > app-text/aspell-0.60.6 seems a gentoo-x86 issue > dev-libs/boost-1.34.1-r2 can't convert, buildsystem isn't sane > dev-python/numpy-1.0.4-r2 > dev-python/numpy-1.1.1 > dev-python/numpy-1.2.1 gentoo-x86 issue > sci-misc/tinysvm-0.09-r1 appears to be gentoo-x86 Rest all converted, thanks!
