Problem building x11/nvidia-driver; ref. n245494-6827435548d2

[Chris]

On 2021-03-17 05:18, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Mar 2021 05:08:50 -0700
> David Wolfskill <david at catwhisker.org> wrote:
> 
>> My laptop is currently running main-n245489-15b82e00a164; after updating
>> sources to n245498-096a84721670, I am performing a source-based update.
>> 
>> A simialr update on my build machine (which is headless, and thus does
>> not use anything related to X11) was successful.
>> 
>> The laptop is set up to rebuild x11/nvidia-driver when the kernel
>> is updated.
>> 
>> The buildkernel step on it fails with:
>> 
>> ...
>> awk -f /usr/src/sys/conf/kmod_syms.awk nvidia-modeset.ko  export_syms | 
>> xargs -J% objcopy % nvidia-modeset.ko
>> ===> lib (all)
>> ===> lib/libglvnd (all)
>> ...
>> ===> x11/driver (all)
>> ===> x11/extension (all)
>> ===> doc (all)
>> make[6]: "/usr/share/mk/bsd.man.mk" line 53: Malformed conditional 
>> (${MK_MANSPLITPKG} == "no")
>> make[6]: Fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
>> make[6]: stopped in 
>> /common/S4/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/sys/CANARY/common/ports/x11/nvidia-driver/work/NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86_64-460.56/doc
>> *** Error code 1
>> 
>> Stop.
>> 
>> 
>> On reviewing the list of files changed in 15b82e00a164..096a84721670, I
>> note a couple of promising-looking candidates:
>> 
>>  share/mk/bsd.opts.mk                |   1 +
>>  share/mk/src.opts.mk                |   1 -
>> 
>> Reviewing the commit log for share/mk/bsd.opts.mk, I see that the most
>> recent entry is:
>> 
>> | commit 6827435548d257c672f934db5c6ff01012d96995
>> | Author: Jung-uk Kim <jkim at FreeBSD.org>
>> | Date:   Tue Mar 16 14:16:10 2021 -0400
>> |
>> |     pkgbase: Fix building out-of-tree manual pages
>> |
>> |     c7e6cb9e08d6 introduced MK_MANSPLITPKG but it was not available for
>> |     building out-of-tree manual pages.  For example, x11/nvidia-driver 
>> fails
>> |     with the following error:
>> |
>> |     ===> doc (all)
>> |     make[3]: "/usr/share/mk/bsd.man.mk" line 53: Malformed conditional 
>> (${MK_MANSPLITPKG} == "no")
>> |     make[3]: Fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
>> |
>> |     Move the definition from src.opts.mk to bsd.opts.mk to make it 
>> visible.
>> 
>> which looks ... apropos.
>> 
>> Indeed, it appears that the n245494-6827435548d2 change was intended to
>> fix the issue that I am now just seeing.
>> 
>> But I readily confess that I have neither familairity nor expertise
>> with share/mk/* (and that delving into it reminds me of "You are
>> in a mazy twist of passages, all different")
>> 
>> So...  help?  What do I need to do to be able to build the kernel now?
>> 
>> (E.g., if I need to just skip building x11/nvidia-driver once, get
>> everything installed, then build "normally" (with x11/nvidia-driver)
>> -- that's fine; I just need a clue.)
>> 
> 
> For me trying to build nvidia-driver along with the kernel always fails
> miserably.
+1 for me too. I didn't _used_ to have this problem. But when I hit it.
I simply modified my procedure (as you), and never looked back.

> 
> My tree is at 096a8472167..c96151d3350  main.
> 
> Building the kernel on its own followed by building nvidia-driver in
> the ports tree worked for me with no problems (but I didn't install
> either one of them yet).
--Chris