Bug 380957

Summary:	dev-libs/newt: failed to compile on Mac OSX
Product:	Gentoo/Alt	Reporter:	yegle <cnyegle>
Component:	Other	Assignee:	Gentoo non-Linux Team <alt>
Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	emerge --info =dev-libs/newt-0.52.12 build.log Patch from macports, modified a little Makefile.in.patch newt-0.52.13.ebuild

Description yegle 2011-08-28 15:19:24 UTC

Bug 370457 depends on this package.

whiptail.c: In function 'readTextFile':
whiptail.c:300: error: storage size of 's' isn't known
make: *** [whiptail.o] Error 1
emake failed


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 yegle 2011-08-28 15:20:34 UTC

Created attachment 284883 [details]
emerge --info =dev-libs/newt-0.52.12

Comment 2 yegle 2011-08-28 15:21:17 UTC

Created attachment 284885 [details]
build.log

Comment 3 yegle 2011-09-13 15:55:59 UTC

Managed to build it with some modificated patch from MacPorts
https://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/devel/libnewt/files

Comment 4 yegle 2011-09-13 15:57:23 UTC

Created attachment 286357 [details, diff]
Patch from macports, modified a little

Comment 5 yegle 2011-09-13 15:58:29 UTC

Created attachment 286359 [details, diff]
Makefile.in.patch

Patch from macports, without modification

Comment 6 yegle 2011-09-13 15:59:04 UTC

Created attachment 286361 [details]
newt-0.52.13.ebuild

Comment 7 yegle 2013-06-05 20:57:57 UTC

Unfortunately in newt-0.52.15 the author starts passing `--version-script` option to ld, which is not supported by the toolchain (gcc-apple 4.2.1_p5666-r1)

I really hope this ebuild is officially supported in prefix. Since app-misc/byobu depends on this package.

Comment 8 yegle 2016-06-06 04:03:41 UTC

I don't see anyone actively working on this and since I don't use byobu anymore I don't have interest in following this bug.