... with USE="-* tcl test", the db build fails with: cc-1035 CC: ERROR File = ./dbstl_common.h, Line = 58 #error directive: "No appropriate TLS modifier defined." #error "No appropriate TLS modifier defined." ^ cc-1035 CC: ERROR File = /usr/opt/gentoo/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/db-4.8.24/work/db-4.8.24/build_unix/../dist/../stl/dbstl_resource_manager.h, Line = 144 #error directive: "A multi-threaded build of STL for Berkeley DB requires thread local storage. None is configured." #error "A multi-threaded build of STL for Berkeley DB requires thread local storage. None is configured." ^ 2 errors detected in the compilation of "/usr/opt/gentoo/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/db-4.8.24/work/db-4.8.24/build_unix/../dist/../stl/dbstl_container.cpp". make: *** [dbstl_container.lo] Error 1 * ERROR: sys-libs/db-4.8.24 failed: * make failed * * Call stack: * ebuild.sh: 51: <call call-ebuildshell 'src_compile'> * environment: 743: <call src_compile> * environment:5091: emake || die "make failed" This occurs regardless of the presence or absence of -D_SGI_MP_SOURCE in C(PP)FLAGS, and after looking at config.log appears to be because the IRIX C++ compiler doesn't understand '__thread'. Should there be a pthreads equivalent? I've just tried the build again with USE="-* nocxx", and this succeeded! With C++ support, though, all USE combinations fail. I also see that, at the start of the build process, the following notices are output: >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking db-4.8.24.tar.gz to /usr/opt/gentoo/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/db-4.8.24/work * Applying db-4.8-libtool.patch ... [ ok ] * Applying db-4.8.24-java-manifest-location.patch ... [ ok ] * Applying db-4.6-interix.patch ... [ ok ] * QA Notice: 'libtoolize' called by src_unpack: sys-libs/db-4.8.24 * Use autotools.eclass instead of calling 'libtoolize' directly. libtoolize: putting auxiliary files in `.'. libtoolize: copying file `./ltmain.sh' libtoolize: putting macros in AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR, `aclocal'. libtoolize: copying file `aclocal/libtool.m4' libtoolize: copying file `aclocal/ltoptions.m4' libtoolize: copying file `aclocal/ltsugar.m4' libtoolize: copying file `aclocal/ltversion.m4' libtoolize: copying file `aclocal/lt~obsolete.m4' libtoolize: Consider adding `-I aclocal' to ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS in Makefile.am. * Applying db-4.6-jni-check-prefix-first.patch ... [ ok ] * Applying db-4.3-listen-to-java-options.patch ... [ ok ] sed: can't read dist/RELEASE: No such file or directory
(This is probably another of those cases where, if "nocxx" isn't specified, the entire thing tries to build with $CXX - which isn't c99 compliant. If "nocxx" is specified then the library is instead built with $CC, which is c99 compliant, and succeeds. Other than getting upstream developers to understand that you can't apply C standards to the C++ language in a portable way, I'm not sure what else can be done about this. It may be possible to hack the Makefile to correctly use $CC and $CXX where appropriate (assuming that the C++ code can be built without c99 support) but this could be a long job...)
Nope, my bad - having looked at it again, the C API is correctly built with the C compiler, and the process fails when trying to build the C++ API with the C++ compiler, but using threading code which is obviously not compatible with IRIX :( I guess the "nocxx" option should be hard-coded for this package for CHOST == *-irix*
package.use.force in the IRIX profile sounds like a cleaner solution to me
done.
Can we filter this more? db-4.6.x && db-4.7.x build correctly without USE=nocxx, so for these builds the 'nocxx' flag shouldn't be forced - only db-4.5.x and db-4.8.x have this requirement. (I've not come across package.use.force before...)
Could someone take a look at this, please - because I have to keep editing package.use.force after each sync! The following diff should be applied: --- package.use.force +++ package.use.force @@ -4,4 +4,5 @@ # Fabian Groffen <grobian@gentoo.org> (09 Oct 2009) # CXX bindings don't compile due to incompatible threading code, bug #286097 -sys-libs/db nocxx +<sys-libs/db-4.6 nocxx +>=sys-libs/db-4.8 nocxx ... because db-4.6 and db-4.7 are prefectly happy to build with C++ support - it's only db-4.5 (and presumably earlier?) and db-4.8 which don't work.
We are sorry to close this bug. We lack the man-power and devotion to support mips-irix in the tree.
