TCL84 Build error Socket Tests Hang FreeBSD 6.1-Stable #6

[Kris Kennaway]

On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 06:29:52PM -0700, backyard wrote:
> 
> 
> --- Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 06:11:52PM -0700, backyard
> > wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > I'm having trouble building tcl84. These issues
> > did
> > > not seem to exist until I updated the ports tree
> > and
> > > world the other day
> > > 
> > > Heres the basic stuff:
> > > 
> > > FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #6 Sun Sept 17 22:03:38 
> > > is what uname -a spits out ports were updated
> > right
> > > before the system source update. 
> > > 
> > > make.conf has
> > > 
> > 
> > > CXXFLAGS+=-O3 -fno-strict-aliasing
> > 
> > Don't do that, it can cause problems
> 
> can you be a little more specific? I was just using 
> CXXFLAGS+=-O3 
> before I thought the aliasing issues because of type
> casting could cause issues and so -fno-strict-aliasing
> was what you had to do to make optimization above
> level 1 work rigt. At least thats what reading about
> -fno-strict-aliasing seemed to get at with FreeBSD
> specifically. 
> 
> should it be
> CXXFLAGS+=
> dafaulting to O2 with no strict aliasing? given my 
> CFLAGS=-pipe -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing

Just use the defaults (which is currently the same as your CFLAGS).

> > > MAKEOPTS="-j5"
> > 
> > Don't do that, it can cause problems
> 
> I know doing 
> make -j5 buildworld or buildkernel or just about
> anything else would/used to puke things. But I haven't
> seen any issues with MAKEOPTS doing that. Perhaps
> until now? I know specifically make -j5 on the shell
> would cause the build to skip the build and fail on
> the install or skip the build of the objects and fail
> on linking the uncompiled library.

The base system is fine, but many ports of third party software fail
to build (or the build misbehaves) with make -j.

Kris
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