Bug 246540

Description Dave Cottlehuber 2020-05-18 15:23:36 UTC

https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24664 contains an update to databases/foundationdb-devel which now breaks with following cmake warning, at least on 13.0-CURRENT > r3661107. I expect the next pkg.freebsd.org build will fail on this as well.

Checking whether the ASM compiler is GNU using "--version" did not match "(GNU assembler)|(GCC)|(Free Software Foundation)":
FreeBSD clang version 10.0.0 (git@github.com:llvm/llvm-project.git llvmorg-10.0.0-0-gd32170dbd5b)
Target: x86_64-unknown-freebsd13.0
Thread model: posix
InstalledDir: /usr/bin

presumably after running this:

$ as --version
warning: as 2.17.50 is deprecated in FreeBSD and will be removed
GNU assembler 2.17.50 [FreeBSD] 2007-07-03
Copyright 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License.  This program has absolutely no warranty.
This assembler was configured for a target of `x86_64-unknown-freebsd'.

devel/cmake (v3.17.2) includes:

cmake-3.17.2/Modules/CMakeDetermineASMCompiler.cmake
59:  set(CMAKE_ASM${ASM_DIALECT}_COMPILER_ID_VENDOR_REGEX_GNU "(GNU assembler)|(GCC)|(Free Software Foundation)")

I'm not clear what the right fix here is, as this is probably not the only port that will break on this.

I've learned about:

- `cmake -D_CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_PREFIX=llvm-` via https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7031126/switching-between-gcc-and-clang-llvm-using-cmake

which would be fine if this port had an explicit llvm dependency (which it doesn't)

- if /usr/bin/as *appended* its warning to the version, on the same first line, CMakeDetermineASMCompiler.cmake could simply detect that, and we'd have an additional local patch.

as --version
GNU assembler 2.17.50 [FreeBSD] 2007-07-03 warning: as 2.17.50 is deprecated in FreeBSD and will be removed

committed here:

Author: emaste <emaste@FreeBSD.org>
Date:   Thu Aug 1 19:01:27 2019 +0000

    as: add deprecation notice to the man page
    
    In the future FreeBSD will ship without GNU binutils 2.17.50.  Add a
    note advising users who require GNU as to install the binutils port
    or package.
    
    Note that on armv7, arm64, amd64, i386 we currently ship only two
    binutils tools (as and objdump).  A deprecation notice was added to
    objdump's man page some time ago.
    
    PR:             233611
    Discussed with: jhb
    MFC after:      1 week
    Relnotes:       Yes
    Sponsored by:   The FreeBSD Foundation

Notes:
    svn path=/head/; revision=350518