Bug 733770

Summary:	media-tv/mythtv calls nm directly
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Agostino Sarubbo <ago>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Wilson M. Michaels <thebitpit>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	proxy-maint, sam
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	243502
Attachments:	build.log

Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev

2020-07-24 13:29:31 UTC

https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2020/07/04/gentoo-tinderbox/

Issue: media-tv/mythtv calls nm directly.
Discovered on: amd64 (internal ref: ci)

NOTE:
As per QA policy, toolchain tools must not be called directly because they can cause issue in cross-compiling and because is not possible use a different NM implementation (like llvm-nm). To reproduce, please use sys-devel/gcc-config[-native-symlinks], sys-devel/binutils-config[-native-symlinks] and set the NM variable to x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-nm.

Comment 1 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev

2020-07-24 13:29:38 UTC

Created attachment 650566 [details]
build.log

build log and emerge --info

Comment 2 Wilson M. Michaels 2020-07-24 21:17:48 UTC

I need help fixing this. I found several calls to nm in the upstream configure file for the mythtv package. I guess I need to change it to something else. I have no idea what that fix looks like. 

Is there an example or some documentation about fixing this.

I do not understand how to run the tinderbox test to verify I fixed it.

Comment 3 Sam James archtester

2021-10-17 07:54:17 UTC

(In reply to Wilson M. Michaels from comment #2)
> I need help fixing this. I found several calls to nm in the upstream
> configure file for the mythtv package. I guess I need to change it to
> something else. I have no idea what that fix looks like. 
> 
> Is there an example or some documentation about fixing this.
> 
> I do not understand how to run the tinderbox test to verify I fixed it.

This should help: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Toolchain/use_native_symlinks.

The idea is to use e.g. AM_PROG_AR (https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Public-Macros.html) in the build system and/or $(AR) to respect ir from the environment.