Re: Building on OpenBSD

On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 8:38 AM, Bernd Schoeller <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi -
>
> I am trying to build 8.0.146 on OpenBSD/amd64, but I get the following
> output:
>
>
> Updating modules/modlist.h
> Updating modules/modlist_headers.h
> Updating modules/linker_options
> Graph cycles through pike
> Build for post-modules-stamp aborted
> Build for post_modules/modlist_headers.h aborted
> Build for module.o aborted
> Build for pike aborted
> Build for post_module_objects aborted
> Build for all aborted
> `all' not remade because of errors.
>
> I can't even figure out where to look to debug. Can anybody help me?

Hmm. I just tried to build 8.0.146 on my Debian box, and it worked
fine, but on a BSD VM (and by the way, this is the smallest
install/bootstrap ISO I've used in a long time - 7MB!), got the same
error you saw.

Poking around on the internet showed up a ten-year-old forum post
suggesting the use of gmake instead of make:

http://pike.roxen.narkive.com/UbGuYBhf/pike-on-openbsd

That seems to get past the circular dependency problem, but I ran into
other issues, most notably this:

There's no master to handle the error. Dumping it raw:
({ /* 2 elements */
    "Indexing the NULL value with \"__backend\".\n",
    ({ /* 1 element */
        object(home/zino/hack/pike8-rel/pike/src/builtin.cmod:2450)
    })
})

Seems there's some sort of issue with the Builtins name/module. Anyone
built an 8.x Pike on BSD?

For what it's worth, Pike 7.8.866 builds and runs just fine, although
it spews a ton of debug info at startup and shutdown.

ChrisA