Bug 260914

Summary: devel/binutils: removing "ansidecl.h" leaves installed "bfd.h" in unusable state
Product: Ports & Packages Reporter: Joerg Wunsch <joerg>
Component: Individual Port(s)Assignee: freebsd-ports-bugs (Nobody) <ports-bugs>
Status: Closed DUPLICATE    
Severity: Affects Only Me CC: bapt, didu31, fernape, jflopezfernandez, miwi
Priority: --- Flags: bugzilla: maintainer-feedback? (jflopezfernandez)
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description Joerg Wunsch freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2022-01-03 23:23:23 UTC 

    


    


      



        
          Comment 1
        

        
          Joerg Wunsch

        

        
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          2022-01-03 23:26:07 UTC
        

      






When compiling for the native system, devel/binutils purposely removes "ansidecl.h" from the list of installed files, as well the #include statement from installed "bfd.h".

This renders the installed "bfd.h" completely useless, as it references ENUM_BITFIELD all over the place which used to be declared in ansidecl.h.

    


    


      



        
          Comment 2
        

        
          Fernando Apesteguía

        

        
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          2022-01-05 15:13:35 UTC
        

      






(In reply to Joerg Wunsch from comment #1)
Joerg,

You might want to contact bapt@ and/or miwi@ and see if they remember the reasons for that. The changes date from 2014!

Unfortunately devel/binutils maintainer has not answered since he took maintainership.

    


    


      



        
          Comment 3
        

        
          Joerg Wunsch

        

        
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          2022-01-05 15:33:59 UTC
        

      






(In reply to Fernando Apesteguía from comment #2)
OK, I added them to Cc list.

    


    


      



        
          Comment 4
        

        
          Joerg Wunsch

        

        
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          2022-02-16 22:16:41 UTC
        

      






*ping*

I'm still interested in a solution.

As it is, the installed bfd.h file is completely useless.

Resolving this bug is the prerequisite of finally dropping the devel/libbfd port, which in turn is required by devel/fnccheck and devel/fpc-bfd.

Without resolving this PR, these two ports are likely to be unusable as it turns out devel/binutils is now pretty ubiquitous on the average system, and it conflicts with devel/libbfd.

    


    


      



        
          Comment 5
        

        
          Didier Garcin

        

        
        

        
          2022-10-06 15:41:11 UTC
        

      






I was about to ask in freebsd forum when I saw this bug open.

For the little story : I have exactly the same problem when installing a component of ocaml 4.14 (ocaml-top) via opam. ./configure fails when contesting bfd.h.

Please, change that.

    


    


      



        
          Comment 6
        

        
          Joerg Wunsch

        

        
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          2022-10-06 22:24:58 UTC
        

      






(In reply to Didier Garcin from comment #5)

I'd really like to see the opinion from @miwi and @bapt because they are supposed to know the problem that was attempted to be "solved" with the current (IMHO completely unusable) state.

If they still don't respond here, I suggest to just add ansidecl.h back.

    


    


      



        
          Comment 7
        

        
          Joerg Wunsch

        

        
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          2023-03-09 19:58:48 UTC
        

      






Bug #269878 duplicates this one, but meanwhile made a lot more progress.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 269878 ***