Eugene "Merclangrat" Bolshakoff

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Some issues related to specific packages

Some patches are here: http://lizaurus.com/solaris10/patches

devel/libuv

patched tcp.c but linking libnbcompat fails, add -fPIC flag https://gnats.netbsd.org/56668

misc/rhash

take newer version (1.4.5) from the next pkgsrc tarball, it builds successfully

devel/glib2

I used libsol10-compat, but it still thrown an error in

[466/1428] Compiling C object glib/tests/getpwuid-preload.so.p/getpwuid-preload.c.o
FAILED: glib/tests/getpwuid-preload.so.p/getpwuid-preload.c.o 

./glib/tests/getpwuid-preload.c:71:22: error: conflicting types for 'getpwnam_r'
 DEFINE_WRAPPER (int, getpwnam_r, (const char     *name,
                      ^
../glib/tests/getpwuid-preload.c:35:15: note: in definition of macro 'DEFINE_WRAPPER'
   return_type func argument_list
               ^
In file included from ../glib/tests/getpwuid-preload.c:24:0:
/usr/include/pwd.h:139:12: note: previous declaration of 'getpwnam_r' was here
 extern int getpwnam_r(const char *, struct passwd *, char *,
            ^
../glib/tests/getpwuid-preload.c:82:22: error: conflicting types for 'getpwuid_r'
 DEFINE_WRAPPER (int, getpwuid_r, (uid_t           uid,
                      ^
../glib/tests/getpwuid-preload.c:35:15: note: in definition of macro 'DEFINE_WRAPPER'
   return_type func argument_list
               ^
In file included from ../glib/tests/getpwuid-preload.c:24:0:
/usr/include/pwd.h:138:12: note: previous declaration of 'getpwuid_r' was here
 extern int getpwuid_r(uid_t, struct passwd *, char *, int, struct passwd **);

This file just has different functions declarations, feel free to adjust them how they’re declared in /usr/include/pwd.h and run bmake again.

devel/cmake

cmake needs -lncurses because it tries to link itself with Solaris curses library + new gcc

I removed two files connected to GHS (they caused error about gbuild from Green Hills software, I guess we don’t need that), also bmake package SSP_SUPPORTED=no (I think it can be solved by another way, for example symlinking /usr/local/lib/sparcv9/libssp.so to /usr/pkg/lib).

How long did it take to build cmake? Here it is:

real    786m29.379s
user    708m1.986s
sys     44m31.926s

it’s built with gcc 9.5 and needs libs from the archive (see GCC 9 (gcc5 could’t build it).

databases/shared-mime-info

It has devel/glib2 as a dependency and uses libglib-2.0.so,libgio-2.0.so,libgobject-2.0.so and libgmodule-2.0.so. And the linker doesn’t link correctly with libgmodule-2.0.so, trying to use the system one, which is very old.
I had to change build.ninja after bmake configure - put this library explicitly using the full path.

Also, I had to comment USE_CXX_FEATURES=filesystem in Makefile, or it tries to install gcc10 which is not available for Solaris. gcc9 builds it correctly, it has this feature.

graphics/gdk-pixbuf2

databases/shared-mime-info breaks graphics/gdk-pixbuf2 - it needs mime.cache (it took 3 days for me to figure out where the problem was).
After I fixed it, gdk-pixbuf2 has a small issue with systeminfo.h - just patch the file pixops.c to include it unconditionally. And it builds. And it works!

devel/pango

Building pango was tricky. There were linker problems, and because I was not successful to use gld, I had to replace -z defs to -z nodefs in meson build (also, after initial configure). pango and cairo seem to work well because I could build rxvt-unicode and there’s a nice terminal! Woohoo!

graphics/netpbm

netpbm mysteriously has just cc without paths in config.mk.in, and it doesn’t get changed by configure scripts. Putting cc symlink somewhere to /usr/pkg/bin didn’t help, I had to change the path in the file and run bmake again.

security/gnutls

Oh, that was the trickiest one! I don’t know why building via bmake was failing, because if I used gmake in the source directory, it worked. I had to build it like this, but then use readelf and elfedit to fix binaries because there were relative paths.
I think to try again and figure out what was happening there to make it buildable via bmake properly.

graphics/MesaLib

It uses static_assert which is not available in Solaris, I patched the code and could build it.

x11/gtk3

Solaris linker (/usr/ccs/bin/ld) doesn’t support -Wl,--export-dynamic - actually, there’s a BUILDLINK_TRANSFORM option in Makefile to remove it, but testsuite/gtk/builder still uses it. Isn’t it just a bug? I had to remove it from ninja.build.

And x11/gtk3 has an option -Dgtk-doc=true to build a documentation using xsltproc. On my Sun Blade 100 with 1.5G of RAM, it was working for 36 hours and couldn’t get done.
I had to stop it and set -Dgtk-doc to false - but in this case bmake install fails. The documentation files are specified in PLIST. Of course, there are two options:

www/netsurf

Successfully, the new browser on Solaris! I had to patch some files and add missing libs to LDFLAGS.

textproc/groff

groff is a text processor which can be found in each system. pkgsrc’s build enables groff-docs by default and needs py-pdf.
as it’s said on python website, py-pdf doesn’t need any dependencies in general, but if image extraction is needed, it needs Pillow which needs Rust. Fail.

I disabled groff-docs just running: bmake install PKG_OPTIONS.groff=-groff-docs CFLAGS+=-D__EXTENSIONS__
I guess I will try to build py-pdf without Pillow if another package would need it…

x11/fltk13

pkgsrc has fltk 1.3.9 which I couldn’t build using gcc. If I tried Sun Studio, there was an error about ELFCLASS.
I found a solution. I downloaded fltk 1.3.5 and built it using gcc just by ./configure & gmake with pkgsrc options, then put to the work subdirectory and made a package. Then, the packkage fltk-1.3.9 actually has version 1.3.5, but it seems to work…

net/tigervnc

After bmake configure, add #include <memory.h> to ./work/tigervnc-1.14.0/unix/vncconfig/QueryConnectDialog.cxx and #include <unistd.h> to .work/tigervnc-1.14.0/unix/xserver/os/backtrace.c
If it fails with linking during X.Org server building, just cd ./work/tigervnc-1.14.0/unix/xserver/ and run gmake. Then, bmake will create the package.

But the trickiest part was the font path. TigerVNC builds its own X.Org, and its ./configure has a parameter to set font paths. But in my case it didn’t work. By default, it sets
COMPILEDDEFAULTFONTPATH = ${prefix}/share/fonts/X11/misc/,${prefix}/share/fonts/X11/TTF/,${prefix}/share/fonts/X11/OTF/,${prefix}/share/fonts/X11/Type1/,${prefix}/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/,${prefix}/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/

I guess it would work, but somehow ${prefix} wasn’t resolved to a variable (it may be because /bin/sh is used somewhere which is horribly broken on Solaris).
I had to replace this line in all Makefiles and .h files where I found it, and put COMPILEDDEFAULTFONTPATH = /usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType,/usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/,/usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/ - to use Solaris fonts.

Also, I needed to install x11/xsetroot and wm/twm (oh, I haven’t tried to run CDE yet in VNC!).

TigerVNC has one more trick. Because SPARC is big-endian, when I try to connect from x86-64 (a little-endian machine), it just shows me a white screen. And on the SPARC side, one of Xvnc threads gets crashed. vncviewer on Linux must be run with -encoding hextile.

Also, I used ChatGPT asking questions and copy-pasting errors. Sometimes it provided too much information, but it could help where to look/patch/fix/etc.