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FreeBSD compilation problem (errno_location)

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From: Janus Troelsen <ysangkok <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: FreeBSD compilation problem (errno_location)
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2015 03:56:20 +0200

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Hi,

When compiling Guix on FreeBSD, everything works great until I get the following error message. Does anyone know how to handle this?

This my configure line:

LDFLAGS="-largp -lintl -L/usr/local/lib" CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include" ./configure --prefix=$HOME/guix-build --with-courage

I know FreeBSD is not officially supported, but I don't see why it shouldn't be? Many GNU tools work on FreeBSD.

Regards,
Janus

> [janus <at> xn--kn-1ia ~/guix-0.8.3] ../make-build/bin/make
> /usr/home/janus/guix-0.8.3/../make-build/bin/make  all-recursive
> make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/home/janus/guix-0.8.3'
> Making all in po/guix
> make[2]: Entering directory '/usr/home/janus/guix-0.8.3/po/guix'
> make[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/home/janus/guix-0.8.3/po/guix'
> Making all in po/packages
> make[2]: Entering directory '/usr/home/janus/guix-0.8.3/po/packages'
> make[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/home/janus/guix-0.8.3/po/packages'
> make[2]: Entering directory '/usr/home/janus/guix-0.8.3'
>   GUILEC guix/pk-crypto.go
> Backtrace:
> In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
> 2401: 19 [save-module-excursion #<procedure a71780 at ice-9/boot-9.scm:3066:17 ()>]
> 3085: 18 [#<procedure a71780 at ice-9/boot-9.scm:3066:17 ()>]
> In unknown file:
>    ?: 17 [primitive-load-path "guix/utils" ...]
> In ice-9/eval.scm:
>  505: 16 [#<procedure 73fac0 at ice-9/eval.scm:499:4 (exp)> (define-module # # ...)]
> In ice-9/psyntax.scm:
> 1106: 15 [expand-top-sequence ((define-module (guix utils) #:use-module ...)) () ...]
>  989: 14 [scan ((define-module (guix utils) #:use-module ...)) () ...]
>  279: 13 [scan ((#(syntax-object let # ...) (#) (# #) ...)) () ...]
> In ice-9/eval.scm:
>  411: 12 [eval # ()]
> In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
> 2951: 11 [define-module* (guix utils) #:filename ...]
> 2926: 10 [resolve-imports (((guix config)) ((srfi srfi-1)) ((srfi srfi-9)) ...)]
> 2864: 9 [resolve-interface (guix build syscalls) #:select ...]
> 2789: 8 [#<procedure 7e7620 at ice-9/boot-9.scm:2777:4 (name #:optional autoload version #:key ensure)> # ...]
> 3065: 7 [try-module-autoload (guix build syscalls) #f]
> 2401: 6 [save-module-excursion #<procedure 106e0c0 at ice-9/boot-9.scm:3066:17 ()>]
> 3085: 5 [#<procedure 106e0c0 at ice-9/boot-9.scm:3066:17 ()>]
> In unknown file:
>    ?: 4 [primitive-load-path "guix/build/syscalls" ...]
> In ice-9/eval.scm:
>  453: 3 [eval # ()]
>  411: 2 [eval # ()]
> In unknown file:
>    ?: 1 [dynamic-func "__errno_location" #<dynamic-object #f>]
> In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
>  106: 0 [#<procedure ad2d40 at ice-9/boot-9.scm:97:6 (thrown-k . args)> misc-error ...]
> 
> ice-9/boot-9.scm:106:20: In procedure #<procedure ad2d40 at ice-9/boot-9.scm:97:6 (thrown-k . args)>:
> ice-9/boot-9.scm:106:20: In procedure dynamic-pointer: Symbol not found: __errno_location
> Makefile:4457: recipe for target 'guix/pk-crypto.go' failed
> make[2]: *** [guix/pk-crypto.go] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/home/janus/guix-0.8.3'
> Makefile:3619: recipe for target 'all-recursive' failed
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/home/janus/guix-0.8.3'
> Makefile:2231: recipe for target 'all' failed
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> [janus <at> xn--kn-1ia ~/guix-0.8.3]

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Message #10 received at 21610-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Janus Troelsen <ysangkok <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 21610-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#21610: FreeBSD compilation problem (errno_location)
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2015 12:04:19 +0200

Hello,

Janus Troelsen <ysangkok <at> gmail.com> skribis:

> I know FreeBSD is not officially supported, but I don't see why it shouldn't be? Many GNU tools work on FreeBSD.

Guix depends on the availability of the GNU C Library, with either the
Linux-libre kernel or the Hurd.  So it cannot be used at all on FreeBSD.

Now, an interesting project would be to use Debian’s port of the
GNU libc to the kernel of FreeBSD (GNU/kFreeBSD) in Guix…

Thanks,
Ludo’.

Message #13 received at 21610 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org>
To: 21610 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: ysangkok <at> gmail.com, ludo <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#21610: FreeBSD compilation problem (errno_location)
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2015 14:02:43 -0400

ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Janus Troelsen <ysangkok <at> gmail.com> skribis:
>
>> I know FreeBSD is not officially supported, but I don't see why it shouldn't be? Many GNU tools work on FreeBSD.
>
> Guix depends on the availability of the GNU C Library, with either the
> Linux-libre kernel or the Hurd.  So it cannot be used at all on FreeBSD.

I'd like to expand on this.  When Guix builds packages, the container in
which software is built does not use any software or libraries from the
host system at all.  The only part of the host system that we use,
implicitly, is the kernel.

Guix is bootstrapped in a manner analogous to Cross [GNU/]Linux from
Scratch, starting from statically "bootstrap binaries" that we provide
for each supported architecture/kernel combination.  At present, we
provide bootstrap binaries for x86_64, i686, mips64el, and armhf on top
of Linux (the kernel), and soon we will support the Hurd as well.

Unless the FreeBSD kernel is able to emulate Linux (the kernel)
sufficiently well to run our binaries for GNU/Linux unmodified, and to
convince 'configure' scripts and other build systems that the kernel is
Linux, using Guix on top of FreeBSD will involve porting it, as
described in section 7.8 (Porting to a New Platform) in the Guix manual.

As Ludovic pointed out, such a port would still need to use GNU libc,
and would use all of the GNU userland on top, so only the kernel from
FreeBSD would be used.

    Regards,
      Mark

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