gnucash @3.9: Could NOT find Threads (missing: Threads_FOUND)

[hapaguy (Brian Kurt Fujikawa)]

I am using the following:

• macOS 10.15.4
• Xcode 11.4
• MacPorts 2.6.2

The gnucash build fails:

• sudo port -sv upgrade gnucash
• sudo port -sv install gnucash

with missing threads, etc.:

• -- Performing Test HAVE_OFX_BUG_39 - Failed
• -- Performing Test have_stringop_truncation - Failed
• -- Performing Test CMAKE_HAVE_LIBC_PTHREAD - Failed
• -- Looking for pthread_create in pthreads - not found
• -- Looking for pthread_create in pthread - not found

I have attached the main.log.

[ryandesign (Ryan Schmidt)]

I agree; here's the ​build failure log from our Catalina buildbot worker. This problem appears to be specific to Catalina.

Could you also attach the CMakeError.log file?

[hapaguy (Brian Kurt Fujikawa)]

Could you also attach the CMakeError.log file?

done, thanks

[drkp (Dan Ports)]

Well, I'm pretty confused here because I didn't run into this problem when I originally prepared the gnucash 3.9 update (also on Catalina), but now I'm running into it with gnucash 3.10. I guess this is probably related to some update either to Catalina or to Xcode that happened in the interim??

[hapaguy (Brian Kurt Fujikawa)]

FWIW, I updated macOS and Xcode on Mar 24 - a week before I ran into problems with the gnucash 3.9 update. I didn't encounter any issues with the gnucash 3.8 update in Jan - so, your guess that the problem is related to the macOS/Xcode update is reasonable.

[kencu (Ken)]

I notice one pthread.h test fails like this:

error: no previous prototype for function 'test_func' [-Werror,-Wmissing-prototypes]

I'd have to check by comparing to some other compiler's behaviour, but it could be that test used to pass, and now it fails due to a stricter clang syntax check.

[kencu (Ken)]

With clang-9 on 10.6, I see similar errors, but it succeeds in the end:

-- Checking for GTEST
-- Looking for pthread.h
-- Looking for pthread.h - found
-- Performing Test CMAKE_HAVE_LIBC_PTHREAD
-- Performing Test CMAKE_HAVE_LIBC_PTHREAD - Failed
-- Check if compiler accepts -pthread
-- Check if compiler accepts -pthread - no
-- Looking for pthread_create in pthreads
-- Looking for pthread_create in pthreads - not found
-- Looking for pthread_create in pthread
-- Looking for pthread_create in pthread - found
-- Found Threads: TRUE  

so it's not that -- too bad, that might have been easy. You may see useful information in CMakeOutput.log to help as well.

[jjstickel (Jonathan Stickel)]

I'd appreciate some movement on this one. I've been using direct download of gnucash from the upstream site, but I am experiencing some weird behavior that might be easier to trouble-shoot with Macports-installed gnucash. I googled and tried solutions suggested on these forums/issues:

​https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54587052/cmake-on-mac-could-not-find-threads-missing-threads-found

​https://github.com/fireice-uk/xmr-stak/issues/1597

but no luck. I'm willing to try other things if you have suggestions.

[ryandesign (Ryan Schmidt)]

Has duplicate #60724.

[kencu (Ken)]

On 10.15, the initial configuration of gnucash fails, as above.

looking at build/CMakeFiles/CMakeError.log, we see this:

/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_gnome_gnucash/gnucash/work/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp/src.c:3:7: error: no previous prototype for function 'test_func' [-Werror,-Wmissing-prototypes]
void* test_func(void* data)
      ^
/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_gnome_gnucash/gnucash/work/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp/src.c:3:1: note: declare 'static' if the function is not intended to be used outside of this translation unit
void* test_func(void* data)
^
static 
1 error generated.

Well, OK, Xcode 11 wants a function prototype. The test is kept in this file:

/opt/local/share/cmake-3.17/Modules/CheckForPthreads.c

and editing that file to add a function prototype:

#include <pthread.h>

/* ADD THIS FUNCTION PROTOTYPE */
void* start_routine(void*);

void* start_routine(void* args)
{
  return args;
}

int main(void)
{
  /* This is a compile and link test, no code to actually run things. */
  pthread_t thread;
  pthread_create(&thread, 0, start_routine, 0);
  pthread_join(thread, 0);
  return 0;
}

and then all is well, pthreads are found, gnucash finishes configuring, and installs.

% port -v installed gnucash
The following ports are currently installed:
  gnucash @3.9_0 (active) platform='darwin 19' archs='x86_64' date='2020-06-27T19:42:28-0700'

So - cmake will need a patch for this, for now, until the inevitable next release, wherein we find out this has already, no doubt, been reported and fixed upstream in some commit that I'm sure someone will find and paste the link to here.

[kencu (Ken)]

Hi Michael -- adding you in here, as it looks like the pthread detection module on cmake is falsely failing on stricter Xcode 11 due to a lack of function prototype in the pthread test file.

[kencu (Ken)]

another approach, maybe simpler for now (although cmake should still provide a prototype)...

in the gnucash CMakeList.txt, they do this:

if (UNIX)
  set( CMAKE_C_FLAGS "-Werror -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-pointer-sign -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wno-unused ${CMAKE_C_FLAGS}")

So easing up that -Werror should also fix this in this build.

[kencu (Ken)]

<​https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/7566>

[ken-cunningham-webuse]

In 226874aa46f3297744c62b25328c5786ab6c79a0/macports-ports (master):

gnucash: don't use -Werror

it causes the pthread tests to fail on some macOS versions
and it is generally not advised to have -Werror active
in releases of software in general

closes: #60310