Re: FreeBSD 11.2: glthread build failure

[Bruno Haible]

Hi Tim,

> > FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE-p4 (with clang 6.0):
> > 
> >   CCLD     wget2

Please make it a habit to use "make V=1" when submitting a report.
I don't want to see "CCLD wget2"; I want to see the actual link
command line.

> > /usr/bin/ld: undefined reference to symbol
> > `pthread_mutexattr_gettype@@FBSD_1.0' (try adding -lthr)
> > //lib/libthr.so.3: could not read symbols: Bad value
> > clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see
> > invocation)
> > gmake[2]: *** [Makefile:1697: wget2] Error 1

I reproduce the issue
  - with a wget2-1.99.2.tar.gz tarball downloaded from
    https://gitlab.com/gnuwget/wget2/pipelines
  - when configuring with --disable-shared
  - on FreeBSD 11, NOT on FreeBSD 12,
  - NOT when configuring with --disable-shared --without-lzma

The problem is that, somehow, weak symbols don't work well when linking
with a library that has a dependency to libpthread.so (-> libthr.so)
- liblzma.so in this case.

Since gnulib cannot forbid any package from linking with liblzma, gnulib
has to avoid using weak symbols in this case.

This patch should fix the problem.


2020-01-19  Bruno Haible  <address@hidden>

        threadlib: Disable use of weak symbols on FreeBSD 11.
        Reported by Tim Rühsen <address@hidden> in
        <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2020-01/msg00061.html>.
        * m4/threadlib.m4 (gl_WEAK_SYMBOLS): Require AC_CANONICAL_HOST. Test
        against a bug in FreeBSD 11.

diff --git a/m4/threadlib.m4 b/m4/threadlib.m4
index e64ad62..94441f6 100644
--- a/m4/threadlib.m4
+++ b/m4/threadlib.m4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# threadlib.m4 serial 26
+# threadlib.m4 serial 27
 dnl Copyright (C) 2005-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 dnl This file is free software; the Free Software Foundation
 dnl gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it,
@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ dnl Checks whether the compiler and linker support weak 
declarations of symbols.
 
 AC_DEFUN([gl_WEAK_SYMBOLS],
 [
+  AC_REQUIRE([AC_CANONICAL_HOST])
   AC_CACHE_CHECK([whether imported symbols can be declared weak],
     [gl_cv_have_weak],
     [gl_cv_have_weak=no
@@ -119,6 +120,30 @@ int main ()
      case " $LDFLAGS " in
        *" -static "*) gl_cv_have_weak=no ;;
      esac
+     dnl Test for a bug in FreeBSD 11: A link error occurs when using a weak
+     dnl symbol and linking against a shared library that has a dependency on
+     dnl the shared library that defines the symbol.
+     case "$gl_cv_have_weak" in
+       *yes)
+         case "$host_os" in
+           freebsd* | dragonfly*)
+             : > conftest1.c
+             $CC $CPPFLAGS $CFLAGS $LDFLAGS -fPIC -shared -o libempty.so 
conftest1.c -lpthread >&AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FD 2>&1
+             cat <<EOF > conftest2.c
+#include <pthread.h>
+#pragma weak pthread_mutexattr_gettype
+int main ()
+{
+  return (pthread_mutexattr_gettype != NULL);
+}
+EOF
+             $CC $CPPFLAGS $CFLAGS $LDFLAGS -o conftest conftest2.c 
libempty.so >&AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FD 2>&1 \
+               || gl_cv_have_weak=no
+             rm -f conftest1.c libempty.so conftest2.c conftest
+             ;;
+         esac
+         ;;
+     esac
     ])
   case "$gl_cv_have_weak" in
     *yes)