Bug 254891 - editors/vim: Linking fails for vim 8.2.2725 on 13-STABLE amd64
Summary: editors/vim: Linking fails for vim 8.2.2725 on 13-STABLE amd64
Status: Closed FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Ports & Packages
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Individual Port(s) (show other bugs)
Version: Latest
Hardware: amd64 Any
: --- Affects Only Me
Assignee: Adam Weinberger
URL:
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2021-04-08 17:54 UTC by rsmith
Modified: 2021-04-17 17:13 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

See Also:
bugzilla: maintainer-feedback? (adamw)


Attachments
add dependency on libsysinfo to vim port (1.10 KB, patch)
2021-04-15 16:53 UTC, Oleg Sidorkin
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Description rsmith 2021-04-08 17:54:14 UTC
When trying to build vim 8.2.2725 with a ports tree freshly checked out with git, I get a linking failure:

link.sh: $LINK_AS_NEEDED set to 'yes': invoking linker directly.
  cc   -fstack-protector-strong  -L/usr/local/lib -Wl,--as-needed  -o vim objects/arabic.o  objects/arglist.o  objects/autocmd.o  objects/beval.o  objects/buffer.o  objects/change.o  objects/blob.o  objects/blowfish.o  objects/cindent.o  objects/clientserver.o  objects/clipboard.o  objects/cmdexpand.o  objects/cmdhist.o  objects/crypt.o  objects/crypt_zip.o  objects/debugger.o  objects/dict.o  objects/diff.o  objects/digraph.o  objects/drawline.o  objects/drawscreen.o  objects/edit.o  objects/eval.o  objects/evalbuffer.o  objects/evalfunc.o  objects/evalvars.o  objects/evalwindow.o  objects/ex_cmds.o  objects/ex_cmds2.o  objects/ex_docmd.o  objects/ex_eval.o  objects/ex_getln.o  objects/fileio.o  objects/filepath.o  objects/findfile.o  objects/fold.o  objects/getchar.o  objects/gui_xim.o  objects/hardcopy.o  objects/hashtab.o  objects/help.o  objects/highlight.o  objects/if_cscope.o  objects/if_xcmdsrv.o  objects/indent.o  objects/insexpand.o  objects/list.o  objects/locale.o  objects/map.o  objects/mark.o  objects/match.o  objects/mbyte.o  objects/memline.o  objects/menu.o  objects/misc1.o  objects/misc2.o  objects/mouse.o  objects/move.o  objects/normal.o  objects/ops.o  objects/option.o  objects/optionstr.o  objects/os_unix.o  objects/pathdef.o  objects/popupmenu.o  objects/popupwin.o  objects/profiler.o  objects/pty.o  objects/quickfix.o
objects/regexp.o  objects/register.o  objects/screen.o  objects/scriptfile.o  objects/search.o  objects/session.o  objects/sha256.o  objects/sign.o  objects/sound.o  objects/spell.o  objects/spellfile.o  objects/spellsuggest.o  objects/syntax.o  objects/tag.o  objects/term.o  objects/terminal.o  objects/testing.o
 objects/textformat.o  objects/textobject.o  objects/textprop.o  objects/time.o  objects/typval.o  objects/ui.o  objects/undo.o  objects/usercmd.o  objects/userfunc.o  objects/version.o  objects/vim9compile.o
objects/vim9execute.o  objects/vim9script.o  objects/vim9type.o  objects/viminfo.o  objects/window.o  objects/bufwrite.o    objects/vterm_encoding.o objects/vterm_keyboard.o objects/vterm_mouse.o objects/vterm_parser.o objects/vterm_pen.o objects/vterm_screen.o objects/vterm_state.o objects/vterm_unicode.o objects/vterm_vterm.o          objects/if_python3.o        objects/netbeans.o  objects/job.o objects/channel.o
objects/xdiffi.o  objects/xemit.o  objects/xprepare.o  objects/xutils.o  objects/xhistogram.o  objects/xpatience.o objects/charset.o  objects/json.o  objects/main.o  objects/memfile.o  objects/message.o
       -lm -lelf  -pthread -lncursesw          -L/usr/local/lib/python3.9/config-3.9 -lpython3.9 -lcrypt
-lintl -ldl -L/usr/local/lib -lintl -lutil -lm -lm
ld: error: undefined symbol: sysinfo
>>> referenced by memline.c
>>>               objects/memline.o:(findswapname)
>>> referenced by memline.c
>>>               objects/memline.o:(ml_recover)
>>> referenced by memline.c
>>>               objects/memline.o:(swapfile_info)
cc: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
link.sh: Linking failed
*** Error code 1

Stop.
make[3]: stopped in /usr/ports/editors/vim/work/vim-8.2.2725/src
*** Error code 1

Stop.
make[2]: stopped in /usr/ports/editors/vim/work/vim-8.2.2725
*** Error code 1

Stop.
make[1]: stopped in /usr/ports/editors/vim
*** Error code 1


For now, I've added this to the Makefile.
Not sure if this is the most elegant solution, but works for me.

diff --git a/editors/vim/Makefile b/editors/vim/Makefile
index 6e7e10617..feea79d53 100644
--- a/editors/vim/Makefile
+++ b/editors/vim/Makefile
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ USE_GITHUB=   yes

 CONFLICTS_INSTALL?=    vim-console vim-tiny

+LIBS+=         -L${LOCALBASE}/lib -lsysinfo
+
 CONFIGURE_ARGS=        --enable-gui=${GUI} \
                --enable-multibyte \
                --with-tlib=ncursesw

In case it matters, this is my port config:

# make showconfig
===> The following configuration options are available for vim-8.2.2725:
     CSCOPE=off: cscope support
     DEFAULT_VIMRC=off: Install bundled vimrc as default setting
     MAKE_JOBS=off: Enable parallel build
     NLS=off: Native Language Support
     XTERM_SAVE=on: Restore xterm screen after exit
====> Optional language bindings
     LUA=off: Lua scripting language support
     PERL=off: Perl scripting language support
     PYTHON=on: Python bindings or support
     RUBY=off: Ruby bindings or support
     SCHEME=off: MzScheme (Racket) bindings
     TCL=off: Tcl scripting language support
====> Options available for the single CTAGS: you have to select exactly one of them
     CTAGS_BASE=off: Use system ctags
     CTAGS_EXUBERANT=off: Use exctags instead of ctags
     CTAGS_UNIVERSAL=on: Use uctags instead of ctags
====> User interface: you have to select exactly one of them
     ATHENA=off: Athena GUI toolkit
     CONSOLE=on: Console/terminal mode
     GNOME=off: GNOME desktop environment support
     GTK2=off: GTK+ 2 GUI toolkit support
     GTK3=off: GTK+ 3 GUI toolkit support
     MOTIF=off: Motif widget library support
     X11=off: X11 (graphics) support
Comment 1 Adam Weinberger freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2021-04-08 18:26:58 UTC
I suspect this has to do with the devel/libsysinfo port polluting your build environment. I assume you're building this with `make` instead of poudriere?

If you're building with make, and you have the devel/libsysinfo port installed, then vim just needs to be taught not to try to link into it.
Comment 2 rsmith 2021-04-08 20:01:18 UTC
(In reply to Adam Weinberger from comment #1)

Yes, I'm building with `make`, and `devel/sysinfo` is indeed installed.

If I comment out lines 13867--13949 from the (already patched) configure script in work/vim-8.2.2725/src/auto/configure, the error disappears.
Comment 3 Oleg Sidorkin 2021-04-13 20:50:24 UTC
(In reply to rsmith from comment #2)

I went in opposite direction and just edited work/vim-8.2.2725/src/auto/config.mk to link vim against libsysinfo. That worked also.
Comment 4 Oleg Sidorkin 2021-04-15 16:53:03 UTC
Created attachment 224139 [details]
add dependency on libsysinfo to vim port

My version of patch: add explicit dependency on libsysinfo
Comment 5 Adam Weinberger freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2021-04-15 17:20:57 UTC
Thanks, Oleg, but the solution is to make sure vim does not link against libsysinfo. It is in no way required to run vim, and is solely a case of an unclean (i.e. non-poudriere) ports environment polluting the vim build.
Comment 6 Oleg Sidorkin 2021-04-15 18:26:09 UTC
(In reply to Adam Weinberger from comment #5)

I welcome any solution that makes the port buildable :)

sysinfo call is used just for optimization that looks quite fragile to me (however it was accepted by upstream).
Comment 7 commit-hook freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2021-04-16 14:13:12 UTC
A commit in branch main references this bug:

URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/ports/commit/?id=4d5cf5c847301e36f0ed4fe30a1b6bbb17ec2332

commit 4d5cf5c847301e36f0ed4fe30a1b6bbb17ec2332
Author:     Adam Weinberger <adamw@FreeBSD.org>
AuthorDate: 2021-04-16 14:12:06 +0000
Commit:     Adam Weinberger <adamw@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2021-04-16 14:12:44 +0000

    Try harder to build when libsysinfo is installed

    PR:             254891

 editors/vim/Makefile | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
Comment 8 Adam Weinberger freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2021-04-16 14:15:25 UTC
Can you try with this newest commit? It deletes all the HAVE_SYSINFO_* stuff that got left over and hopefully fixes the build for you.

Oleg, it doesn’t seem to me like vim actually needs the sysinfo headers. Do you see a reason why that’d be incorrect? Is there benefit I’m not seeing to making a hard dep on libsysinfo? I want to make sure I’m not missing something.
Comment 9 Oleg Sidorkin 2021-04-16 14:56:24 UTC
(In reply to Adam Weinberger from comment #8)
Works for me, thanks.


The only place it is used is here: https://github.com/vim/vim/blob/master/src/memline.c#L1102

As far as I undertand, here it tries to check if another instance of VIM is using the given.swp file.

The check is quite fragile since it can return false positive result in case of time synchronization issues.

The only benefit from hard dependency I can see is to have less patching in our ports.
Comment 10 rsmith 2021-04-17 01:36:15 UTC
(In reply to Adam Weinberger from comment #8)

This solution works fine.

It is certainly more elegant than my hack & slash modification of the configure script. A lesson worth remembering; thank you.
Comment 11 Adam Weinberger freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2021-04-17 17:13:15 UTC
Thanks to both of you for the help here. I'm going to close this PR and mark it as fixed.