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Re: GIT source build failure: wcwidth.c::_wcwidth misses __locale_cjk_lang()


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Hi Corinna, hi everyone on both lists

Am 21.08.2016 um 20:15 schrieb Corinna Vinschen:
[CC newlib mailing list since it affects newlib in the first place]

On Aug 21 14:28, Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote:
Am 21.08.2016 um 12:30 schrieb Corinna Vinschen:

And while I'm at it: what _is_ the dependency handling here, anyway?  I
can't seem to find any.  Which could indeed explain the problem.

That's because dependency handling is basically non-existing in newlib.

Nobody added a patch yet to do that.  Newlib being open-source, there's
of course nothing keeping anybody from adding it (*nudge*, *nudge*).

That wouldn't be so much a patch as a redesign, I'm afraid, because it's strongly tied to the following:

A big problem for many people keeping them from provide patches to the
configury is that newlib's build system still requires the automake
--cygnus option, which isn't supported by automake for quite some time.

And one of the effects of --cygnus is: to enables option "no-dependencies", thus turning off dependency tracking. Hrmpf.

So let's see how far I get trying to un--cygnusify newlib (as part of Cygwin):

1) Get rid of for'cygnus' options. In all 134 Makefile.am replace

	AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = cygwin
by 	AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = foreign no-installinfo no-dist
and delete cygnus from one or two AM_INIT([]) calls, too

2) autoupdate in newlib, using autoconf-2.69 and automake-1.15
3) autoreconf in newlib, using autoconf-2.69 and automake-1.15
4) run "make" in my build dir
5) touch libc/locale/setlocale.h
6) run "make" again

Et voila! Step 6 now recompiles 4 files that depend on setlocale.h, then re-builds the libraries using them

7) Get a rough glimpse of what I did:

$ git diff --stat newlib | tail -1
 438 files changed, 264967 insertions(+), 101151 deletions(-)

Well, that's what you get for having generated files like Makefile.in, configure and aclocal.m4 in version control...


The trick is to use an older versions of automake for rebuilding the
configury.  I'm having goods results with this script, which can be
called from newlib or the libc/libm subdirs:

  #!/bin/bash
  aclocal-1.12.2 -I. -I..
  autoconf
  automake-1.12.2 --cygnus --no-force

Side note: in a cygwin environment (or any that uses Gentoo's automake/autoconf wrapper scripts), this should be reducible to:

	WANT_AUTOMAKE=1.12 autoreconf -I. -I..

But I'm afraid the time this approach worked reliably may be nearing its end. Automake-1.11/1.12 appears to be no longer fully compatible with current versions of Perl. At least I don't remember having had error messages like this back when 1.12 or 1.11 were still on point:

main::scan_file() called too early to check prototype at /usr/bin/aclocal-1.11 line 644.

The autoconf version actually doesn't matter much so I'm using 2.69.

That did not work for me. config/override.m4 insisted rather strictly that only 2.64 is allowed to be used. I shredded lines 30ff. from that file to get past that one.

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