arm-none-eabi-gdb build failure on 10.10 Yosemite

[bruce@…]

No troubles encountered compiling arm-none-eabi-gcc, but the gdb counterpart fails as follows:

# port install arm-none-eabi-gdb
Warning: All compilers are either blacklisted or unavailable; defaulting to first fallback option
--->  Computing dependencies for arm-none-eabi-gdb
--->  Fetching archive for arm-none-eabi-gdb
--->  Attempting to fetch arm-none-eabi-gdb-7.5.1_0.darwin_14.x86_64.tbz2 from http://packages.macports.org/arm-none-eabi-gdb
--->  Attempting to fetch arm-none-eabi-gdb-7.5.1_0.darwin_14.x86_64.tbz2 from http://lil.fr.packages.macports.org/arm-none-eabi-gdb
--->  Attempting to fetch arm-none-eabi-gdb-7.5.1_0.darwin_14.x86_64.tbz2 from http://nue.de.packages.macports.org/macports/packages/arm-none-eabi-gdb
--->  Fetching distfiles for arm-none-eabi-gdb
--->  Verifying checksums for arm-none-eabi-gdb
--->  Extracting arm-none-eabi-gdb
--->  Configuring arm-none-eabi-gdb
Warning: All compilers are either blacklisted or unavailable; defaulting to first fallback option
[repeat the above warning 17 more times...]
--->  Building arm-none-eabi-gdb
Error: org.macports.build for port arm-none-eabi-gdb returned: command execution failed
Please see the log file for port arm-none-eabi-gdb for details:
    /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_cross_arm-none-eabi-gdb/arm-none-eabi-gdb/main.log
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Error: Processing of port arm-none-eabi-gdb failed

It fails similarly if built either of these two ways:

# port install arm-none-eabi-gdb configure.compiler=gcc
# port install arm-none-eabi-gdb configure.compiler=clang

Build log attached.

[bruce@…]

Build log

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Sorry, the port blacklists clang, but clang is the only compiler available on Yosemite, so this port cannot be built on Yosemite, until someone figures out how to fix that.

[larryv (Lawrence Velázquez)]

Perhaps we could try updating it to ​the latest version first?

[DanielO (Daniel O'Connor)]

Cc Me!

[DanielO (Daniel O'Connor)]

The attached patch fixes it for me.

There are 2 problems - the first is the texinfo one, if you fix that it later fails in bfd due to -Werror.

Perhaps disabling -Werror would fix clang but I did not try it.

[stuartwesterman (Stuart Westerman)]

The patch works great! Nice work! Thank you!

[neverpanic (Clemens Lang)]

Cc Me!

[IvoClarysse (Ivo Clarysse)]

Update to gdb 7.9

[IvoClarysse (Ivo Clarysse)]

Updating to GDB 7.9 (Patch arm-none-eabi-gdb7.9.patch attached) also fixes the Yosemite build, but avoids having to patch bfd/doc/bfd.texinfo.

[IvoClarysse (Ivo Clarysse)]

Cc Me!

[neverpanic (Clemens Lang)]

Thanks, r135529 with one change, namely dropping the md5 checksum. Our current guideline says rmd160/sha256 and md5 is old and should be considered broken anyway.

Since the maintainer has ignored this ticket for 6 months now, are you interested in taking over the port?

[stuartwesterman (Stuart Westerman)]

Sorry! I'm a bad maintainer. I'll cede maintainership to whoever wants it. I'll try to be better in the future.

[DanielO (Daniel O'Connor)]

I don't think I'd be a particularly good maintainer, although I'm happy to nag you if stuff breaks :)

[neverpanic (Clemens Lang)]

I can also put you both on the list, if you want.

Stuart: Don't worry too much about it, we just occasionally have people that don't reply anymore at all which is why I asked. No need to change anything if your email address still works and you're not completely uninterested in the port.