Re: [ptxdist] util-linux fail to compile with 2023.10.0

[Christian Melki <christian.melki@t2data.com>]

On 10/25/23 15:48, Mircea Ciocan wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> while attempting to compile ptxdist with 2023.10.0 I've encountered a failure in cfdisk package, that is build regardless if it is selected or not in the ptxconfig :(, no one seems to use PTXCONF_UTIL_LINUX_CFDISK to select if the cfdisk utility is build or not,

Hi!

This is is what I see:
CFDISK is a separate flag that sets FDISKS.
FDISKS is then used to build all fdisks.
But only the selected fdisks get installed.
I don't see an error here?

but unfortunately if also no other packages that use the ncurses library
are also not selected, when cfdisk is compiled the following error occurs:

Do I understand it correctly when you say that the only user of ncurses
in your entire build is cfdisk? Seems quite odd, hence my rather stupid
question. In that case, can you please check that NCURSES actually gets
built before util-linux?
And that your selected ptxconfig contains ncurses?

> 
> [479/612] Linking target cfdisk
> FAILED: cfdisk 
> /opt/OSELAS.Toolchain-2023.07.0/arm-v7a-linux-gnueabihf/gcc-13.2.0-clang-17.0.1-glibc-2.37-binutils-2.41-kernel-6.1-sanitized/lib/gcc/arm-v7a-linux-gnueabihf/13.2.0/../../../../arm-v7a-linux-gnueabihf/bin/ld: platform-dabija/build-target/util-linux-2.39.2-build/../util-linux-2.39.2/disk-utils/cfdisk.c:685:(.text+0x50): undefined reference to `wclrtoeol'
> /opt/OSELAS.Toolchain-2023.07.0/arm-v7a-linux-gnueabihf/gcc-13.2.0-clang-17.0.1-glibc-2.37-binutils-2.41-kernel-6.1-sanitized/lib/gcc/arm-v7a-linux-gnueabihf/13.2.0/../../../../arm-v7a-linux-gnueabihf/bin/ld: platform-dabija/build-target/util-linux-2.39.2-build/../util-linux-2.39.2/disk-utils/cfdisk.c:697:(.text+0xae): undefined reference to `wattr_on'
> [...snip many more similar messages...]
> 
> Maybe the maintainer of the package will have a look, because I think there may be some other packages that are not actually constrained with the ptxconf selection options.
> 

I couldn't reproduce this in 09 or 10. x86_64 or arm-v7a.
Now I don't have an ncurses cfdisk only build nor do I have OSELAS as
toolchain. I don't think the latter should make much of a difference
though. Our toolchain for arm-v7a looks rather similar in components.

Regards,
Christian

> Best regards,
> Mircea
>