Fwd: Re: devel/mingw32-gcc problem

[Naram Qashat]

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Subject: Re: devel/mingw32-gcc problem
From: David Chisnall <theraven at FreeBSD.org>
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 21:07:03 +0100
Cc: freebsd-toolchain at FreeBSD.org, rene at FreeBSD.org

There have been some changes to how the ports tree handles libtool files 
recently, but I don't know the details.  You'd be better off asking on the ports 
list or in #bsdports on EFNet.

David

On 10 Oct 2014, at 21:36, Naram Qashat <cyberbotx at cyberbotx.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I've been trying to push out an update to devel/mingw32-gcc, but ran into a problem, and Rene suggested asking about it here.
>
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=191291
>
> Long story short, some of the .a files installed by devel/mingw32-bin-msvcrt get clobbered (their contents becomes nothing but NUL bytes) during the build of mingw32-gcc. This only happens under 10.x and not under 9.x or earlier.
>
> I'm not subscribed to this mailing list, so please CC me on any replies.
>
> Thanks,
> Naram Qashat

I'm forwarding this message as suggested by David. I'm not sure if the libtool 
changes would account for the problem I'm running in to, as the files being 
clobbered are archives and not libtool files. But if anyone has any insight 
about this, I'd really appreciate it, as I would like to update the port and 
this has been a major stopping point.

Thanks,
Naram Qashat