retdec/retdec-devel: build intersperses use of 'make' and 'gmake', preventing proper jobserver coordination

[mascguy (Christopher Nielsen)]

When port gmake is installed, the build for these ports will intermingle use of make and gmake. That's highly problematic, as it prevents proper jobserver coordination between subprocesses.

This effectively eliminates build job process limiting, causing parallel builds to overwhelm the host.

While this could probably be fixed via various mechanisms, the simplest approach is to simply add a build dep on gmake, and force the use of the latter via build.cmd.

[mascguy (Christopher Nielsen)]

Kirill, I'm currently validating the portfile changes for this, and it'll be committed shortly.

[catap (Kirill A. Korinsky)]

Unfortunately retdec is used cmake which is calling another build systems like make/gmake which makes everything extreamly complicated.

[Christopher Nielsen <mascguy@…>]

In a61fe3d247cc9ba0660d181afa6be79cca3690a8/macports-ports (master):

retdec/retdec-devel: force use of gmake

• Necessary to prevent intermingling of macOS make and gmake
• Add missing darwin platform checks

See: #63999

[mascguy (Christopher Nielsen)]

Replying to catap:

As for the fix just checked in, note that it doesn't solve all of the problems: I'm still seeing at least one case where make is being invoked by cmake. I'm hoping this might be related to the cmake PG, but still investigating.

Still need to do more digging into this. But based on how make is being invoked - sometimes path-less, via make - and other times, via a fully-qualified path to 'make' within the Xcode dev tools area - this may be a bit more involved.

But given how long it takes to build these ports without parallel building enabled, it seems worth the effort.

The next step is to try building with Trace Mode enabled, to gain more insight into what's occurring. More info to follow.

[Christopher Nielsen <mascguy@…>]

In 663bed1e4938007edf920214d6554e76385a32dc/macports-ports (master):

retdec/retdec-devel: use full path to gmake
See: #63999

• Also revert to cmake-1.0 portgroup, due to outstanding issue:

See: #64009

[catap (Kirill A. Korinsky)]

In da01e7cae1388ad2429d400e1be450feb528e78a/macports-ports (master):

retdec: fix build on old macOS

It also switched to build agains system openssl, and force use of gmake
for yara.

Closes: #63999