Bug 751037

Summary:	bootstrap-prefix.sh: stat: illegal option -- c
Product:	Gentoo/Alt	Reporter:	Alexander Bezrukov <phmagic>
Component:	Other	Assignee:	Gentoo non-Linux Team <alt>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	trivial	CC:	kenneth.hoste, phmagic, sam
Priority:	Low	Keywords:	PATCH
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	OS X
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=730476 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=751067
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	755644
Attachments:	A trivial fix for stat invocation in bootstrap-prefix.sh

Description Alexander Bezrukov 2020-10-24 14:12:32 UTC

I am trying to install Gentoo prefix on MacOS X (Mojave and Catalina).

bootstrap-prefix.sh relies on the GNU version of the stat utility. MacOS X and FreeBSD (and probably other *BSD) have the BSD version of this utility installed, which use another set of flags. Therefore is the error message.

The fix is trivial. I will be attaching a patch.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. ./bootstrap-prefix.sh

Actual Results:  
stat: illegal option -- c

Expected Results:  
No error message and the intended check is actually performed

Obviously I cannot provide 'emerge --info' output. I also used the 'Other' component because the web interface for Gentoo Bugzilla asks to not file bugs under 'Mac OSX', reserving it to ppc Macs.

Comment 1 Alexander Bezrukov 2020-10-24 14:17:45 UTC

Created attachment 668306 [details, diff]
A trivial fix for stat invocation in bootstrap-prefix.sh

Tested on clean MacOS 10.14.6. Untested on *BSD (but consulted FreeBSD stat(1) man page [0].

0: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=stat&manpath=FreeBSD+12.1-RELEASE+and+Ports

Comment 2 Sam James archtester

2020-10-24 14:21:58 UTC

Have you actually managed to get a bootstrap working? (See the other bug).

Comment 3 Alexander Bezrukov 2020-10-24 14:35:58 UTC

(In reply to Sam James from comment #2)
> Have you actually managed to get a bootstrap working? (See the other bug).

Only stage 1, then I have got the messages:

* ready to bootstrap stage2_log
!!! unknown compiler

I haven't had a chance to really look into this yet. This error is preceeded by several other errors during the script execution, I started to clean them one by one, this bug is the beginning (not sure if I will be able to make real progress).

I did a dumb and trivial fix for the /usr/include problem, simply symlinked the SDK include dir to /usr/include (disabled SIP for this single operation). I am a very newbie in the MacOS, probably I don't understand yet the real problem.

Comment 4 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev

2020-10-25 08:15:18 UTC

The bug has been closed via the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/proj/prefix.git/commit/?id=6b522acbb352eaae250d54b48456350ded50d7ce

commit 6b522acbb352eaae250d54b48456350ded50d7ce
Author:     Alexander Bezrukov <phmagic@mail.ru>
AuthorDate: 2020-10-25 08:14:22 +0000
Commit:     Fabian Groffen <grobian@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2020-10-25 08:14:22 +0000

    scripts/bootstrap-prefix: fix stat invocation for Darwin/*BSD
    
    Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/751037
    Signed-off-by: Fabian Groffen <grobian@gentoo.org>

 scripts/bootstrap-prefix.sh | 11 +++++++++--
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)