Re: FreeBSD 12.2 cannot build back

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi David,

David Chisnall wrote:
> On 30/10/2020 18:31, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
>> I wonder if this is a gnustep-make issue or a project issue?
>
> My guess is a -make issue.  I suspect a newer LLD is more aggressive
> about rejecting incompatible options than older linkers.
>
>> Where are -r and -rdynamic coming from? I found nothing therelike in
>> gsc's subproject itself.
>
> -r is from the subproject makefile.  Subprojects are linked as a .o
> file that is then subsequently linked into the final binary, which
> requires -r.
>
> I believe -rdynamic is added globally because it's necessary for
> dladdr to give useful outputs on most ELF platforms, which is
> essential for pretty back traces.  We probably need to explicitly
> remove it from LDFLAGS in the subproject things in -make (it's only
> meaningful when producing a fully linked output). 

Your explanation sounds reasonable. I don't know how to filter out
something in subprojects, but to test your hypothesis I edited
"target.make" in the FreeBSD section and just removed rdynamic globally
and back finishes compiling.
A quick test shows also that most applications do work!

Riccardo