I'm working on switching to LLVM's lld linker as the FreeBSD system linker (/usr/bin/ld)[1], and the port in this PR is reported as a new failure in the exp-run, PR 214864. An excerpt from the build log[2]: --- ld: error: unable to find library -lc --- Known issues in this port or in lld that affect this port: (2) lld has no built-in search paths (/lib, /usr/lib). Normally the linker is invoked from the compiler driver, and the search paths are added by the compiler. If lld is invoked directly library search paths must be specified explicitly, with -L/lib -L/usr/lib. FreeBSD 11 and later have lld available as /usr/bin/ld.lld, so one simple option for testing is to just symlink /usr/bin/ld to ld.lld (and restore it to ld.bfd). A port Makefile knob, LLD_UNSAFE=yes, exists to indicate that a port does not work with lld, and requires either /usr/bin/ld.bfd or binutils from ports. This should work for the common case of ports written in C using GNU autoconf; it may have no effect on other ports. [1] https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2018-March/068985.html [2] http://package18.nyi.freebsd.org/data/headamd64PR214864-default/2018-03-21_17h43m11s/logs/errors/libds-1.0_1.log
A commit references this bug: Author: emaste Date: Tue Mar 27 21:24:51 UTC 2018 New revision: 465760 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/465760 Log: devel/libds: use BINARY_ALIAS to ensure linker is ld.bfd lld has no built-in search paths (/lib, /usr/lib). Normally the linker is invoked from the compiler driver, and the search paths are added by the compiler. If lld is invoked directly library search paths must be specified explicitly, with -L/lib -L/usr/lib. This port does not honour LD or -fuse-ld in CFLAGS via LLD_UNSAFE, but BINARY_ALIAS can be used to ensure we use the BFD linker. PR: 226972 Approved by: portmgr (LLD_UNSAFE blanket) Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation Changes: head/devel/libds/Makefile
Followup, if BINARY_ALIAS is used it should be in addition to LLD_UNSAFE, so that architectures without a /usr/bin/ld.bfd (arm64) work. If possible LLD_UNSAFE=yes should imply BINARY_ALIAS=ld=ld.bfd, under discussion on the ports mailing list.
Has stack-protector only from bsd.ssp.mk. Only need SSP_UNSAFE=yes.
(In reply to w.schwarzenfeld from comment #3) The bsd.ssp.mk issue results in -fstack-protector being passed to the linker, which isn't the case here?
Workaround committed.