findutils 4.7.0 fails to build

[Tatsh (Andrew Udvare)]

Log is attached. Couple of errors:

:info:build ftello.c:53:12: error: no member named '_flag' in 'struct __sFILE'; did you mean '_flags'?
:info:build   if (fp_->_flag & _IOWRT)
:info:build            ^~~~~
:info:build            _flags
:info:build /Applications/Xcode-10.1.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.14.sdk/usr/include/_stdio.h:130:8: note: '_flags' declared here
:info:build         short   _flags;         /* flags, below; this FILE is free if 0 */
:info:build                 ^
:info:build ftello.c:53:20: error: use of undeclared identifier '_IOWRT'
:info:build   if (fp_->_flag & _IOWRT)

[Tatsh (Andrew Udvare)]

build log

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

:debug:sysinfo macOS 10.15 (darwin/19.0.0) arch i386

Please be aware of wiki:FAQ#prerelease

This port built OK on <= 10.14 according to ​https://ports.macports.org/port/findutils/summary

[Tatsh (Andrew Udvare)]

The difference is I am using Xcode 10.1 because at least one package (from what I remember) needs it. The builder uses 10.2.1. The version prior to this one built okay.

[Tatsh (Andrew Udvare)]

Also I tried Xcode 10.3 (latest stable) and I still get the same error (after running port clean findutils). I made sure to run xcrun -k to kill caches and I set the SDK to 10.14 with macosx_sdk_version 10.14 in my macports.conf.

[Tatsh (Andrew Udvare)]

I'll leave it at this is a Catalina thing because of the following in generated config.h which I assume is not happening 10.14:

/* Define to 1 if the system's ftello function has the Solaris bug. */
#define FTELLO_BROKEN_AFTER_SWITCHING_FROM_READ_TO_WRITE 1

[BMinas]

This is also failing under Xcode Version 11.0 (11A419c), which Apple is calling GM seed.

[Tatsh (Andrew Udvare)]

This might be Apple's bug since prior Xcode version tools work fine. It seems extremely unlikely that macOS is going to have one of Solaris' issues all of a sudden.

You can work around this by manually by setting FTELLO_BROKEN_AFTER_SWITCHING_FROM_READ_TO_WRITE to 0 in the workdir of the failed build and then running port install findutils again. The find binary that gets built works fine.

[Tatsh (Andrew Udvare)]

I got this same issue with lftp. I think a lot of packages may be affected by this misdetection of an ftello bug. Certainly almost any that use autotools in the configure step.

[ra1nb0w]

Yes, many others fail, like m4 itself. The problem seems this test

  if (!(ftell (fp) == 9))
    return 6;

after

  if (!(putc ('!', fp) == '!'))
    return 5;

on ftello.m4. The value of ftell() remains 8 and don't follow putc() advance.

[ra1nb0w]

I opened an Apple feedback about the problem; if someone has faster way...seen that XCode 11 is GM In my installation I found the following packages:

• m4
• coreutils
• findutils
• gnutls
• wget

[ra1nb0w]

ftell() bug is fixed on macOS 10.15 Beta 10

Tested with macOS 10.15 19A578c Xcode 11.0 11A420a

this ticket can be closed.

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

Closing as per comment:11.