GNU bug report logs - #17694
coreutils build is broken on Maverics (MacOSX v10.9)

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From: Robin Mills <robin <at> clanmills.com>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: coreutils build is broken on Maverics (MacOSX v10.9)
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2014 10:54:40 -0700

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Coreutils is not building on Mavericks.  He complains about the architecture while linking libver.a to chroot (and every utility).

Workaround:
$ cd ~/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.22
$ arch="-arch x86_64" 
$ ./configure CFLAGS="$arch" LDFLAGS="$arch" CXXFLAGS="$arch"
$ make        CFLAGS="$arch" LDFLAGS="$arch" CXXFLAGS="$arch"
… fails after compiling when linking chroot.  Complains about libver.a
$ cp src/version.a src/libver.a       # nice little tweak
$ make        CFLAGS="$arch" LDFLAGS="$arch" CXXFLAGS="$arch"
$ sudo make install

Fix:
I haven’t investigate the “proper” fix.  The work around is sufficient for my purposes.

My setup: 
$ sw_vers
ProductName:	Mac OS X
ProductVersion:	10.9.3
BuildVersion:	13D65

$ gcc --version
Configured with: --prefix=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.2.1
Apple LLVM version 5.1 (clang-503.0.40) (based on LLVM 3.4svn)
Target: x86_64-apple-darwin13.2.0
Thread model: posix

$ ld -v
@(#)PROGRAM:ld  PROJECT:ld64-236.4
configured to support archs: armv6 armv7 armv7s arm64 i386 x86_64 armv6m armv7m armv7em
LTO support using: LLVM version 3.4svn

Robin Mills
http://clanmills.com

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Message #8 received at 17694 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Robin Mills <robin <at> clanmills.com>
To: 17694 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Less confident about this report
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2014 13:00:05 -0700

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I’ve successfully built coreutils on Mavericks on a “clean” machine.

So, I think the issue/workaround are local to something I’ve done locally on my MBP13R.  However the workaround I have described may be helpful to another user.

Let's close this as “Not a bug: unable to reproduce”.

Robin
http://clanmills.com

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Message #13 received at 17694-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Robin Mills <robin <at> clanmills.com>, 17694-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#17694: Less confident about this report
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2014 13:49:10 -0700

On 06/04/2014 01:00 PM, Robin Mills wrote:
> Let's close this as “Not a bug: unable to reproduce”.

Thanks, closed.

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