Bug 177064 – crosscompile fails on many packages due to rpl_malloc renaming

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

[Description Karl H 2007-05-04 17:02:57 UTC]

xmerge usbutils   fails because of rpl_malloc not in uclibc

armeb-softfloat-linux-uclibc-gcc -Wall -W -Wunused -Os -pipe   -o lsusb  lsusb.o names.o devtree.o usbmisc.o  -lusb
names.o: In function `new_genericstrtable':
names.c:(.text+0x38c): undefined reference to `rpl_malloc'
names.o: In function `names_init':
names.c:(.text+0xacc): undefined reference to `rpl_malloc'
names.c:(.text+0xc80): undefined reference to `rpl_malloc'
names.c:(.text+0xdec): undefined reference to `rpl_malloc'
names.c:(.text+0x1044): undefined reference to `rpl_malloc'
names.o:names.c:(.text+0x11a8): more undefined references to `rpl_malloc' follow
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [lsusb] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/usbutils-0.72-r4/work/usbutils-0.72'
make: *** [all] Error 2

!!! ERROR: sys-apps/usbutils-0.72-r4 failed.
Call stack:
  ebuild.sh, line 1614:   Called dyn_compile
  ebuild.sh, line 971:   Called qa_call 'src_compile'
  ebuild.sh, line 44:   Called src_compile
  usbutils-0.72-r4.ebuild, line 37:   Called die

!!! make failed


This is a known issue described at:
http://wiki.buici.com/wiki/Autoconf_and_RPL_MALLOC

[Comment 1 Karl H 2007-05-04 17:03:48 UTC]

Created attachment 118161 [details]
build.log

[Comment 2 SpanKY 2007-05-04 17:10:38 UTC]

as noted already in that wiki page, the only thing we can suggest at this time is:
export ac_cv_func_malloc_0_nonnull=yes

[Comment 3 SpanKY 2007-05-04 17:11:24 UTC]

oh, and rpl_malloc is not supposed to be part of the toolchain ... it's a gnulib thing that packages generally are supposed to include as a fallback