arm-none-eabi-gcc: Build fails on macOS 13+ without texinfo

[linuxgemini (İlteriş Eroğlu)]

When building packages depending on arm-none-eabi-gcc, because of the unavailability of a prebuilt package, the GCC package gets compiled at host; which means a full bootstrap, which also means a long build time for any packages requiring it, causing a cascading effect of automated build failures.

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

According to ​https://ports.macports.org/port/arm-none-eabi-gcc/details/ the missing binaries are a consequence of the port failing to build on those platforms.

[linuxgemini (İlteriş Eroğlu)]

Can confirm that around the time of the latest buildbot runs of the port (see Timing sections of the runs ie. ​https://build.macports.org/builders/ports-13_x86_64-builder/builds/30964), which is late April 2023, builds did fail, even on my machine; however it seems like it can build fine now (for some reason) which (I guess) requires a re-trigger/update/revision to get buildbot going.

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

I triggered another build and it failed again. ​https://build.macports.org/builders/ports-13_x86_64-builder/builds/40454

I'll attach the log to the ticket so we'll still have it when it expires from the buildbot.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

We already had a succesful build for macOS 12 x86_64 before. I ran a new build on macOS 12 arm64 which was also successful now.

Josh ran a new build for macOS 13 x86_64 and I ran one for macOS 13 arm64 and they both failed:

  MAKEINFO /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_bblocal_var_buildworker_ports_build_ports_cross_arm-none-eabi-gcc/arm-none-eabi-gcc/work/gcc-13.1.0/libgloss/doc/porting.info
  CPPAS    arm/crt0.o
  AR       libobjs.a
  CC       arm/linux-crt0.o
  CPPAS    arm/redboot-crt0.o
  CC       arm/redboot-syscalls.o
  CPPAS    arm/rdpmon-crt0.o
  CPPAS    arm/rdimon-crt0.o
  CPPAS    arm/rdimon-crt0-v2m.o
/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_bblocal_var_buildworker_ports_build_ports_cross_arm-none-eabi-gcc/arm-none-eabi-gcc/work/gcc-13.1.0/missing: line 81: makeinfo: command not found
  GEN      arm/nano.specs
WARNING: 'makeinfo' is missing on your system.
         You should only need it if you modified a '.texi' file, or
         any other file indirectly affecting the aspect of the manual.
         You might want to install the Texinfo package:
         <http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/>
         The spurious makeinfo call might also be the consequence of
         using a buggy 'make' (AIX, DU, IRIX), in which case you might
         want to install GNU make:
         <http://www.gnu.org/software/make/>
  GEN      arm/linux.specs
  GEN      arm/redboot.ld
  GEN      arm/redboot.specs
  GEN      arm/rdpmon.specs
  GEN      arm/rdimon.specs
make[4]: *** [/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_bblocal_var_buildworker_ports_build_ports_cross_arm-none-eabi-gcc/arm-none-eabi-gcc/work/gcc-13.1.0/libgloss/doc/porting.info] Error 127
make[4]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
  GEN      arm/rdimon-v2m.specs

Is it just the missing makeinfo? It says it's only a warning but "Error 127" means "command not found" so maybe it really does need it. We know Ventura doesn't include makeinfo anymore and we could add depends_build bin:makeinfo:texinfo to fix that.

I also tried a build on macOS 11 x86_64 which failed due to lack of disk space. I'll see if I can free up some space on that builder and try again. This could have been the reason why the macOS 12 arm64 build failed before; I have recently freed up some disk space there.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

No change after the update to 13.2.0.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

The build of 13.2.0 on 12 x86_64 failed due to lack of disk space again, which had filled ugain due to #67592, and now that I've freed that disk space, a retry fails due to #67876.

[linuxgemini (İlteriş Eroğlu)]

Looks like having texinfo port installed indeed passes the regular build (which I see that 63f34e6 has fixed #67876) but the disk space running out on the build runners can be the more persistent issue in the future, as the port itself still does not have pre-built packages.

[raybellis (Ray Bellis)]

Confirming here that installing texinfo first also allowed installation to complete on my 13.5 system.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Has presumed duplicate #67867.

Same build failure on the Sonoma x86_64 buildbot worker as well.

@judaew would you like to fix the issue?

[İlteriş Yağıztegin Eroğlu <ilteris@…>]

In b459b9992397361fec6b837b54d3f5f5bd9190d2/macports-ports (master):

arm-none-eabi-gcc: fix builds in macOS 13+

This commit adds makeinfo binary from texinfo port as a
build dependency by implementing the comment made by @ryandesign:
#67737#comment:4

Signed-off-by: İlteriş Yağıztegin Eroğlu <ilteris@…>

[linuxgemini (İlteriş Eroğlu)]

Looks like after the commit, we've been hit with the lack of disk space again on builders. See ​https://build.macports.org/builders/ports-13_arm64-builder/builds/46404:

install: /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_bblocal_var_buildworker_ports_build_ports_cross_arm-none-eabi-gcc/arm-none-eabi-gcc/work/destroot/opt/local/share/info/arm-none-eabi-cpp.info: No space left on device

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

I'll free up disk space and re-run the builds tomorrow.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Done: ​https://build.macports.org/builders/ports-13_arm64-builder/builds/46406