x86_64-elf-binutils @ 2.23.1: Doesn't build on macOS Sierra

[stevecheckoway (Stephen Checkoway)]

On macOS 10.12.1, the port fails to build in the step where it runs make info in build/gas/doc. I don't see obvious errors and --disable-werror is being passed to gas's configure script.

Making info in doc
restore=: && backupdir=".am$$" && \
	rm -rf $backupdir && mkdir $backupdir && \
	if (makeinfo --split-size=5000000 --split-size=5000000 --version) >/dev/null 2>&1; then \
	  for f in x86_64-elf-binutils.info x86_64-elf-binutils.info-[0-9] x86_64-elf-binutils.info-[0-9][0-9] x86_64-elf-binutils.i[0-9] x86_64-elf-binutils.i[0-9][0-9]; do \
	    if test -f $f; then mv $f $backupdir; restore=mv; else :; fi; \
	  done; \
	else :; fi && \
	if makeinfo --split-size=5000000 --split-size=5000000 -I "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_cross_x86_64-elf-binutils/x86_64-elf-binutils/work/binutils-2.23.1/binutils/doc" -I "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_cross_x86_64-elf-binutils/x86_64-elf-binutils/work/binutils-2.23.1/binutils/../libiberty" -I "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_cross_x86_64-elf-binutils/x86_64-elf-binutils/work/binutils-2.23.1/binutils/../bfd/doc" -I ../../bfd/doc  -I /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_cross_x86_64-elf-binutils/x86_64-elf-binutils/work/binutils-2.23.1/binutils/doc \
	 -o x86_64-elf-binutils.info `test -f 'x86_64-elf-binutils.texi' || echo '/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_cross_x86_64-elf-binutils/x86_64-elf-binutils/work/binutils-2.23.1/binutils/doc/'`x86_64-elf-binutils.texi; \
	then \
	  rc=0; \
	else \
	  rc=$?; \
	  $restore $backupdir/* `echo "./x86_64-elf-binutils.info" | sed 's|[^/]*$||'`; \
	fi; \
	rm -rf $backupdir; exit $rc
/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_cross_x86_64-elf-binutils/x86_64-elf-binutils/work/binutils-2.23.1/binutils/doc/x86_64-elf-binutils.texi:4378: warning: @itemx should not begin @table
/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_cross_x86_64-elf-binutils/x86_64-elf-binutils/work/binutils-2.23.1/binutils/doc/x86_64-elf-binutils.texi:4386: @itemx must follow @item
/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_cross_x86_64-elf-binutils/x86_64-elf-binutils/work/binutils-2.23.1/binutils/doc/x86_64-elf-binutils.texi:4390: @itemx must follow @item
/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_cross_x86_64-elf-binutils/x86_64-elf-binutils/work/binutils-2.23.1/binutils/doc/x86_64-elf-binutils.texi:4396: @itemx must follow @item
/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_cross_x86_64-elf-binutils/x86_64-elf-binutils/work/binutils-2.23.1/binutils/doc/x86_64-elf-binutils.texi:4400: @itemx must follow @item
/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_cross_x86_64-elf-binutils/x86_64-elf-binutils/work/binutils-2.23.1/binutils/doc/x86_64-elf-binutils.texi:4410: @itemx must follow @item
/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_cross_x86_64-elf-binutils/x86_64-elf-binutils/work/binutils-2.23.1/binutils/doc/x86_64-elf-binutils.texi:2385: warning: node next `ranlib' in menu `readelf' and in sectioning `size' differ
/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_cross_x86_64-elf-binutils/x86_64-elf-binutils/work/binutils-2.23.1/binutils/doc/x86_64-elf-binutils.texi:2463: warning: node prev `size' in menu `readelf' and in sectioning `ranlib' differ
/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_cross_x86_64-elf-binutils/x86_64-elf-binutils/work/binutils-2.23.1/binutils/doc/x86_64-elf-binutils.texi:2687: warning: node next `strip' in menu `elfedit' and in sectioning `c++filt' differ
/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_cross_x86_64-elf-binutils/x86_64-elf-binutils/work/binutils-2.23.1/binutils/doc/x86_64-elf-binutils.texi:3221: warning: node next `nlmconv' in menu `windres' and in sectioning `windmc' differ
/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_cross_x86_64-elf-binutils/x86_64-elf-binutils/work/binutils-2.23.1/binutils/doc/x86_64-elf-binutils.texi:3326: warning: node next `windmc' in menu `dlltool' and in sectioning `windres' differ
/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_cross_x86_64-elf-binutils/x86_64-elf-binutils/work/binutils-2.23.1/binutils/doc/x86_64-elf-binutils.texi:3326: warning: node prev `windmc' in menu `windres' and in sectioning `nlmconv' differ
/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_cross_x86_64-elf-binutils/x86_64-elf-binutils/work/binutils-2.23.1/binutils/doc/x86_64-elf-binutils.texi:3487: warning: node next `windres' in menu `windmc' and in sectioning `dlltool' differ
/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_cross_x86_64-elf-binutils/x86_64-elf-binutils/work/binutils-2.23.1/binutils/doc/x86_64-elf-binutils.texi:3487: warning: node prev `windres' in menu `nlmconv' and in sectioning `windmc' differ
/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_cross_x86_64-elf-binutils/x86_64-elf-binutils/work/binutils-2.23.1/binutils/doc/x86_64-elf-binutils.texi:3681: warning: node next `dlltool' in menu `Common Options' and in sectioning `readelf' differ
/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_cross_x86_64-elf-binutils/x86_64-elf-binutils/work/binutils-2.23.1/binutils/doc/x86_64-elf-binutils.texi:3681: warning: node prev `dlltool' in menu `windmc' and in sectioning `windres' differ
/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_cross_x86_64-elf-binutils/x86_64-elf-binutils/work/binutils-2.23.1/binutils/doc/x86_64-elf-binutils.texi:4084: warning: node next `readelf' in menu `size' and in sectioning `elfedit' differ
/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_cross_x86_64-elf-binutils/x86_64-elf-binutils/work/binutils-2.23.1/binutils/doc/x86_64-elf-binutils.texi:4084: warning: node prev `readelf' in menu `ranlib' and in sectioning `dlltool' differ
/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_cross_x86_64-elf-binutils/x86_64-elf-binutils/work/binutils-2.23.1/binutils/doc/x86_64-elf-binutils.texi:4338: warning: node next `elfedit' in menu `c++filt' and in sectioning `Common Options' differ
/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_cross_x86_64-elf-binutils/x86_64-elf-binutils/work/binutils-2.23.1/binutils/doc/x86_64-elf-binutils.texi:4338: warning: node prev `elfedit' in menu `strip' and in sectioning `readelf' differ
/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_cross_x86_64-elf-binutils/x86_64-elf-binutils/work/binutils-2.23.1/binutils/doc/x86_64-elf-binutils.texi:4432: warning: node prev `Common Options' in menu `dlltool' and in sectioning `elfedit' differ
make[3]: *** [x86_64-elf-binutils.info] Error 1

It was easy to update the port to 2.27 but apparently make install is installing outside the directory.

--->  Staging x86_64-elf-binutils into destroot
Warning: x86_64-elf-binutils installs files outside the common directory structure.

I didn't investigate that, but I imagine that would need to be fixed to consider updating. Nevertheless, I've attached a (totally trivial) diff to the Portfile to update to 2.27.

[mf2k (Frank Schima)]

Thanks. Comments on your patch:

• Please keep the rmd160 checksum. We like to have at least 2 to verify integrity.

[stevecheckoway (Stephen Checkoway)]

I'm happy to keep the rmd160 hash, but note that, cryptographically speaking, this doesn't actually give much additional security. See Joux's ​Multicollisions in Iterated Hash Functions. Application to Cascaded Constructions.

A natural construction to build large hash values is to concatenate several smaller hashes. For example, given two hash functions F and G, it seems reasonable given a message M to form the large hash value (F(M)G(M)). In this construction, F and G can either be two completely different hash functions or two slightly different instances of the same hash function. If F and G are good iterated hash functions with no attack better than the generic birthday paradox attack, we claim that the hash function FG obtained by concatenating F and G is not really more secure that F or G by itself. Moreover, this result applies both to collision resistance, preimage resistance and second preimage resistance.

We'd be better off just using SHA-512. But really, SHA-256 is sufficient.

[mojca (Mojca Miklavec)]

See also #51728 and #51935.

The port was upgraded to the latest version in 9451379b. I didn't notice this ticket back then, but the package built successfully on all our buildbots from 10.6 up to 10.12. I assume the problem was fixed. If I'm wrong, please reopen the ticket.