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 -shared -o installwatch.so installwatch.o -lc ld: error: unable to find library -lc *** Error code 1 --- 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/installwatch-0.6.3_3.log
Via tobik@ in ports r465725, BINARY_ALIAS=ld=ld.bfd may be an effective workaround if LLD_UNSAFE does not work.
A commit references this bug: Author: emaste Date: Tue Mar 27 20:55:00 UTC 2018 New revision: 465751 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/465751 Log: sysutils/installwatch: use BINARY_ALIAS to invoke ld.bfd 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: 226989 Approved by: portmgr (LLD_UNSAFE blanket) Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation Changes: head/sysutils/installwatch/Makefile
A commit references this bug: Author: emaste Date: Tue Mar 27 21:05:10 UTC 2018 New revision: 465752 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/465752 Log: irc/evangeline: use BINARY_ALIAS to invoke ld.bfd 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: 226989 Approved by: portmgr (LLD_UNSAFE blanket) Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation Changes: head/irc/evangeline/Makefile
r465752 referenced this PR by accident, it should be PR226978
Workaround committed in r465751