Bug 236200

Summary:	dev-lang/perl and xs: bad CFLAGS and LDFLAGS handling
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) <flameeyes>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Perl team <perl>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	binki, fkrogh, mattst88, vincent
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-08-30 11:42:52 UTC

I'm doing some experiments with CFLAGS, in particular I've assigned a unique flag to each package, to see if the flags used to build the package "creep in" into other packages (through means of *-config scripts and similar). It seems like this happens when XS is used with perl:

/usr/bin/perl5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/ExtUtils/xsubpp  -typemap /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/ExtUtils/typemap  gettext.xs > gettext.xsc && mv gettext.xsc gettext.c
Please specify prototyping behavior for gettext.xs (see perlxs manual)
i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -c   -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -Wdeclaration-after-statement -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/usr/include/gdbm -pipe -include /var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/perl-5.8.8-r5/temp/flagscheck.h   -DVERSION=\"1.05\" -DXS_VERSION=\"1.05\" -fPIC "-I/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i686-linux/CORE"   gettext.c
cc1: error: /var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/perl-5.8.8-r5/temp/flagscheck.h: No such file or directory

in this case "-pipe -include /var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/perl-5.8.8-r5/temp/flagscheck.h" are the CFLAGS used to build perl itself, and shouldn't be used to build gettext; on the other hand the CFLAGS assigned to gettext are not being respected.

This does not seem to be the correct approach in Gentoo, to me. Can someone who knows a bit of Perl check if there's anything doable to resolve this problem?

Thanks,
Diego

Comment 1 Matt Turner gentoo-dev

2009-11-19 18:17:02 UTC

Ping. This appears to still be a problem (Just noticed it myself.)

Comment 2 Panagiotis Christopoulos (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-05-03 12:34:26 UTC

*** Bug 317477 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Matt Turner gentoo-dev

2010-12-21 00:07:43 UTC

Can a Perl dev please take a look at this?

Comment 4 Torsten Veller (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-01-10 04:15:18 UTC

*** Bug 451102 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Torsten Veller (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-03-17 09:31:24 UTC

*** Bug 461808 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Andreas K. Hüttel archtester

2014-06-18 20:57:45 UTC

This is the same issue as discussed in bug 261375, I think. I'm closing this one since the other one contains more useful info by now.

(Unless OPTIMIZE is set, the perl buildsystems use the optimize variable from the perl install, which defaults to (some of) the flags used during dev-lang/perl build.)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 261375 ***