Bug 185644 – net-im/silc-client-1.1.2 doesn't compile on amd64

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Alexandre Rostovtsev (RETIRED) 2007-07-17 08:53:13 UTC]

The problem is that silc-client uses yasm to compile some amd64 assembly, but specifies the object type as "elf". Yasm (or at least yasm-0.6.0) interprets "elf" to mean "elf32", and obviously that doesn't too great work on amd64:

/bin/sh ../../libtool --tag=CC --mode=compile /usr/bin/yasm -Xgnu -felf aes_x86_64.asm
 /usr/bin/yasm -Xgnu -felf aes_x86_64.asm -o aes_x86_64.o
aes_x86_64.asm:693: warning: `rsp' is a register in 64-bit mode
aes_x86_64.asm:693: undefined symbol `rsp' (first use)
aes_x86_64.asm:693:  (Each undefined symbol is reported only once.)
aes_x86_64.asm:694: warning: `rsp' is a register in 64-bit mode
aes_x86_64.asm:694: warning: `rsi' is a register in 64-bit mode
[...]
aes_x86_64.asm:856: warning: `rsp' is a register in 64-bit mode
make[3]: *** [aes_x86_64.lo] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/net-im/silc-client-1.1.2/work/silc-client-1.1.2/lib/silccrypt'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/net-im/silc-client-1.1.2/work/silc-client-1.1.2/lib'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/net-im/silc-client-1.1.2/work/silc-client-1.1.2'
make: *** [all] Error 2

[Comment 1 Alexandre Rostovtsev (RETIRED) 2007-07-17 08:54:29 UTC]

Created attachment 125148 [details]
fixed silc-client-1.1.2.ebuild

Solution is to sed configure and replace felf with felf64 on amd64.

[Comment 2 Raúl Porcel (RETIRED) 2007-07-20 18:51:06 UTC]

Hrm...why it uses yasm?

[Comment 3 Alexandre Rostovtsev (RETIRED) 2007-07-20 20:42:51 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Hrm...why it uses yasm?
For fast crypto.

[Comment 4 Raúl Porcel (RETIRED) 2007-07-20 21:05:34 UTC]

But how does that work? Just having yasm installed? I'm asking because i was able to built it successfully on amd64, but i don't have yasm installed.

[Comment 5 Alexandre Rostovtsev (RETIRED) 2007-07-20 21:31:33 UTC]

(In reply to comment #4)
> But how does that work? Just having yasm installed? I'm asking because i was
> able to built it successfully on amd64, but i don't have yasm installed.
Have a look at configure.ac, it automatically looks for nasm and yasm, and uses them if they are available. Convenient.

[Comment 6 Raúl Porcel (RETIRED) 2007-07-23 11:51:39 UTC]

Shrug...stupid build system...okay, i'll have a look, thanks for the info

[Comment 7 Raúl Porcel (RETIRED) 2007-08-10 18:09:42 UTC]

Fixed, thanks.