[Vm-dev] Compiling Interpreter VM on FreeBSD

[Frank Shearar]

On 3 January 2013 13:58, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 01:00:32PM +0000, Frank Shearar wrote:
>>
>> On 3 January 2013 00:35, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 07:22:42PM +0000, Frank Shearar wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I'm setting up more CI jobs, this time to give FreeBSD some love. So I
>> >> have a script that gets the bleeding edge Interpreter source, cd
>> >> platform/unix; make. The results are here:
>> >> http://squeakci.org/job/InterpreterVM-FreeBSD/13/console
>> >>
>> >> The punchline is that compilation fails thusly:
>> >>
>> >> In file included from
>> >> /usr/home/frank/temp/jenkins/workspace/InterpreterVM-FreeBSD/target/Squeak-vm-unix-4.10.7-2646-unofficial-src/platforms/unix/plugins/UUIDPlugin/sqUnixUUID.c:9:
>> >> /usr/local/include/uuid/uuid.h:44: error: conflicting types for 'uuid_t'
>> >> /usr/include/sys/uuid.h:74: error: previous declaration of 'uuid_t' was here
>> >
>> > Frank,
>> >
>> > The error message above looks mighty suspicious to me. Where did that
>> > /usr/local/include/uuid/uuid.h come from? I have a hunch that you may
>> > have a locally installed libuuid package that is providing a header
>> > file that conflicts with a /usr/include/sys/uuid.h that came with your
>> > base FreeBSD distribution.
>>
>> It turns out that the misc/e2fsprog-libuuid added
>> /usr/local/include/uuid/uuid.h. I've uninstalled the package. Doing
>> that, and adding -m32, config.log tells me
>>
>> conftest.c:69:23: error: uuid/uuid.h: No such file or directory
>> conftest.c: In function 'main':
>> conftest.c:73: error: 'uuid_generate' undeclared (first use in this function)
>> conftest.c:73: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
>> conftest.c:73: error: for each function it appears in.)
>> configure:28240: $? = 1
>> configure: failed program was:
>> <snip>
>> configure:28333: result: no
>> configure:28337: result: ******** disabling UUIDPlugin
>
> I think you are working with the Cog build at this point,

Yes, trying to confirm for Eliot whether the Cog branch solves the UUID problem.

> but whenever you
> retry the interpreter VM build, just clean out your build directory completely
> and then do the cmake/configure and make. Hopefully it will work now that
> the conflicting uuid.h header is uninstalled.

I'll do that.

>> I'm not sure if that's good or bad?
>
> Not having the UUID plugin is not terribly bad. In fact from my point of
> view it would be great ;-)

OK. But of course it's just Cog that removes the UUID plugin. The
Interpreter VM keeps it, and dies. But hey, at least I've gotten far
enough that we _know_ it fails:
http://squeakci.org/job/InterpreterVM-FreeBSD/14/console

frank

>> > I'm pretty sure that libuuid is entitled to some sort of Guiness world record
>> > for greatest number of stupid preventable bugs for a single small system
>> > library. The proliferation of include/uuid/uuid.h versus include/sys/uuid.h
>> > mismatches is a big part of it, but read our very own Mantis tale of woe for
>> > further entertainment:
>> >
>> > http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=7358
>>
>> I remember seeing Levente's UUID fixes and them blowing my mind:
>> "let's try do this and, if it works, we'll do _this_ otherwise we'll
>> do _that_". I'd never seen that done before.
>>
>> frank
>>
>> > Dave
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >> /usr/home/frank/temp/jenkins/workspace/InterpreterVM-FreeBSD/target/Squeak-vm-unix-4.10.7-2646-unofficial-src/platforms/unix/plugins/UUIDPlugin/sqUnixUUID.c:
>> >> In function 'MakeUUID':
>> >> /usr/home/frank/temp/jenkins/workspace/InterpreterVM-FreeBSD/target/Squeak-vm-unix-4.10.7-2646-unofficial-src/platforms/unix/plugins/UUIDPlugin/sqUnixUUID.c:29:
>> >> warning: passing argument 1 of 'uuidgen' from incompatible pointer
>> >>
>> >> The relevant source is here:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> int MakeUUID(char *location)
>> >> {
>> >> #if defined(HAVE_UUID_CREATE) && !defined(HAVE_UUIDGEN) &&
>> >> !defined(HAVE_UUID_GENERATE)
>> >>   size_t  len= 16;      /* 128 bits */
>> >>   uuid_t *uuid;
>> >>   uuid_create(&uuid);
>> >>   uuid_make(uuid, UUID_MAKE_V1);
>> >>   uuid_export(uuid, UUID_FMT_BIN, (void **)&location, &len);
>> >>   uuid_destroy(uuid);
>> >> #else
>> >>   uuid_t uuid;
>> >> #  if defined(HAVE_UUIDGEN)
>> >>   uuidgen(&uuid, 1);   // <-- this is line 29, the offender
>> >> #  elif defined(HAVE_UUID_GENERATE)
>> >>   uuid_generate(uuid);
>> >> #  endif
>> >>   memcpy((void *)location, (void *)&uuid, sizeof(uuid));
>> >> #endif
>> >>   return 1;
>> >> }
>> >>
>> >> Any ideas? I'm happy to do legwork, but Bozhe moi! This I know from nothing!
>> >>
>> >> frank