nss @3.33 does not build on PPC Tiger, Mac OS X 10.4.11, because compiler selection leads to build with clang-3.3, which is not functional on PPC

[ballapete (Peter "Pete" Dyballa)]

/opt/local/bin/clang-mp-3.3 -arch ppc -o Output.OBJD/Darwin_SINGLE_SHLIB/ecl_gf.o -c -Os -fPIC -Dppc -fno-common -pipe -DDARWIN -DHAVE_STRERROR -DHAVE_BSD_FLOCK  -Wall -DNSS_NO_GCC48 -DXP_UNIX -DSHLIB_SUFFIX=\"dylib\" -DSHLIB_PREFIX=\"lib\" -DSHLIB_VERSION=\"3\" -DSOFTOKEN_SHLIB_VERSION=\"3\" -DRIJNDAEL_INCLUDE_TABLES -UDEBUG -DNDEBUG -DNSS_NO_INIT_SUPPORT -DUSE_UTIL_DIRECTLY -DNO_NSPR_10_SUPPORT -DSSL_DISABLE_DEPRECATED_CIPHER_SUITE_NAMES -DMP_API_COMPATIBLE -I/opt/local/include/nspr -I../../../dist/Output.OBJD/include -I../../../dist/public/nss -I../../../dist/private/nss -Impi -Iecl -Iverified  -std=gnu99 ecl/ecl_gf.c
/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_lil.fr.rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_net_nss/nss/work/.tmp/ecl_gf-e0wYsT.s:831:Parameter error: r0 not allowed for parameter %lu (code as 0 not r0) (parameter 2)
/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_lil.fr.rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_net_nss/nss/work/.tmp/ecl_gf-e0wYsT.s:885:Parameter error: r0 not allowed for parameter %lu (code as 0 not r0) (parameter 2)
clang: error: assembler (via gcc) command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
make[3]: *** [Output.OBJD/Darwin_SINGLE_SHLIB/ecl_gf.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_lil.fr.rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_net_nss/nss/work/nss-3.33/nss/lib/freebl'
make[2]: *** [libs] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_lil.fr.rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_net_nss/nss/work/nss-3.33/nss/lib/freebl'
make[1]: *** [libs] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_lil.fr.rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_net_nss/nss/work/nss-3.33/nss/lib'
make: *** [libs] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_lil.fr.rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_net_nss/nss/work/nss-3.33/nss'
Command failed:  cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_lil.fr.rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_net_nss/nss/work/nss-3.33/nss" && /usr/bin/make -w all NSS_DISABLE_GTESTS=1 NSS_ENABLE_WERROR=0 CC="/opt/local/bin/clang-mp-3.3 -arch ppc" CCC="/opt/local/bin/clang++-mp-3.3 -arch ppc" NSPR_INCLUDE_DIR=/opt/local/include/nspr NSPR_LIB_DIR=/opt/local/lib/nspr NSS_USE_SYSTEM_SQLITE=1 USE_SYSTEM_ZLIB=1 BUILD_OPT=1 OPTIMIZER="-Os" OBJDIR_NAME="Output.OBJD" 
Exit code: 2
Error: Failed to build nss: command execution failed

[ballapete (Peter "Pete" Dyballa)]

main.log from PPC Tiger

[ballapete (Peter "Pete" Dyballa)]

Interestingly when I build with configure.compiler=macports-gcc-6 the file ecl/ecl_gf.c never gets compiled…

[kencu (Ken)]

Peter, as we know, MacPorts compiler selection code for PPC is just plain broken.

Nothing, ever, never, ever should be compiled on PPC with any version of clang available to MacPorts.

it's either gcc-4.2 (apple-gcc42 on Tiger), or gcc6.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Has duplicates #54065, #54639, #56104.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Replying to kencu:

Peter, as we know, MacPorts compiler selection code for PPC is just plain broken.

Nothing, ever, never, ever should be compiled on PPC with any version of clang available to MacPorts.

PowerPC compiler selection was fixed in [7cf76ecd34ea1d78f918f2f026003161cc439a4e/macports-base] and [15a4eeb3618d289b3d92093186b5f20a60e43ff0/macports-base] which was released in MacPorts 2.5.0.