Bug 462898 – sys-firmware/ipxe-1.0.0_p20120905: Fails to build with GCC 4.8.0

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Richard Yao (RETIRED) 2013-03-24 03:33:51 UTC]

Incorrect code in iPXE to causes a build failure when using GCC 4.8.0. The URL field links to an upstream patch by Daniel P. Berrange of Redhat that resolves this issue.

[Comment 1 Richard Yao (RETIRED) 2013-03-24 03:36:46 UTC]

Created attachment 343062 [details]
sys-firmware/ipxe-1.0.0_p20120905 build failure

Attaching the failure log failed due to permissions.

[Comment 2 Alex Xu (Hello71) 2013-04-11 13:35:10 UTC]

Not sure how _p versioning works in Gentoo, but can't we just bump it to sys-firmware/ipxe-1.0.0_p20130305 on eb5a2ba5962579e514b377f5fdab7292be0fb2a7?

[Comment 3 Francesco Riosa 2013-05-13 13:09:46 UTC]

and it should not compile with -Werror anyway. Build system allow to set NO_WERROR=1
i.e.

diff -u   /g/portage/sys-firmware/ipxe/ipxe-1.0.0_p20120905.ebuild  ipxe-1.0.0_p20120905-r1.ebuild
--- /g/portage/sys-firmware/ipxe/ipxe-1.0.0_p20120905.ebuild    2013-01-26 20:31:29.000000000 +0000
+++ ipxe-1.0.0_p20120905-r1.ebuild      2013-05-13 13:05:20.373976364 +0000
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
 }

 src_compile() {
+       export NO_WERROR=1
        if use qemu; then
                emake bin/808610de.rom # pxe-e1000.rom
                emake bin/80861209.rom # pxe-eepro100.rom

[Comment 4 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) 2013-05-13 14:57:39 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Not sure how _p versioning works in Gentoo, but can't we just bump it to
> sys-firmware/ipxe-1.0.0_p20130305 on
> eb5a2ba5962579e514b377f5fdab7292be0fb2a7?

Indeed. The _p just means "post" or "+ patch" this version. I just use the date I grabbed the git commit from. iPXE upstream isn't doing too frequent releases and makes sure their master stays fairly stable.

[Comment 5 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) 2013-06-27 22:07:58 UTC]

I added latest ipxe to the tree and the current version qemu uses as well. This should be resolved there.