coreutils @9.3: tiger build error: signal.h: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'mcontext64_t'

[barracuda156]

mv -f lib/.deps/libcoreutils_a-areadlinkat-with-size.Tpo lib/.deps/libcoreutils_a-areadlinkat-with-size.Po
/opt/local/bin/gcc-apple-4.2 -std=gnu99  -I. -I./lib  -Ilib -I./lib -Isrc -I./src -I/opt/local/include   -Wno-cast-qual -Wno-conversion -Wno-float-equal -Wno-sign-compare -Wno-undef -Wno-unused-function -Wno-unused-parameter -pipe -Os -arch ppc -MT lib/libcoreutils_a-argmatch.o -MD -MP -MF lib/.deps/libcoreutils_a-argmatch.Tpo -c -o lib/libcoreutils_a-argmatch.o `test -f 'lib/argmatch.c' || echo './'`lib/argmatch.c
In file included from /usr/include/sys/wait.h:110,
                 from ./lib/sys/wait.h:28,
                 from /usr/include/stdlib.h:64,
                 from ./lib/stdlib.h:36,
                 from lib/gettext.h:202,
                 from lib/argmatch.h:30,
                 from lib/argmatch.c:25:
/usr/include/sys/signal.h:145: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'mcontext64_t'
/usr/include/sys/signal.h:177: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'ucontext64_t'
make[2]: *** [lib/libcoreutils_a-argmatch.o] Error 1

[mascguy (Christopher Nielsen)]

Evan/Anyone, have you folks had any issues building coreutils on 10.4?

[evanmiller (Evan Miller)]

I get the same failure on stock 10.4.11 / PPC.

[barracuda156]

Replying to mascguy:

Evan/Anyone, have you folks had any issues building coreutils on 10.4?

Just in case, my Tiger setup is trivially standard, since it is used for occasional testing only and gets booted into and updated once in a blue moon. That is, standard cctools and ld64, standard compiler, whatever Macports feeds in by default.

I would expect everything to reproducible, unless something depends on physical CPU (I usually run Tiger on G4).

[kencu (Ken)]

this is a very common Tiger issue -- see #67248 where the exact same issue is active -- and the same problem is currently active with diffutils #67488.

I stuck in a quick workaround for coreutils ​https://trac.macports.org/ticket/67248#comment:9 until it gets properly sorted, but then someone else said they disagreed with that and had another idea.

[kencu (Ken)]

and same with wget @1.21.4 it seems.

issue would appear to be in gnulib, ergo rolls into all these ports.

[mascguy (Christopher Nielsen)]

Duplicate of issue:67248