Bug 22581 – DMD not able to build itself on Solaris

Hello, I tried to build a DMD using DMD on OpenIndiana, a descendant of Solaris. For this I chose the following procedure: 1. Build gdc 2. use gdc to build dmd from the github master branch (necessary because of some recent Solaris specific fixes) 3. use dmd to compile druntime and phobos from master branches 4. try to compile dmd using the just compiled dmd With this approach I got the following output: gmake -C src -f posix.mak all gmake[1]: Verzeichnis „/export/home/User/Documents/dmd_freestanding/dmd/src“ wird betreten posix.mak:42: ===== DEPRECATION NOTICE ===== posix.mak:43: ===== DEPRECATION: posix.mak is deprecated. Please use src/build.d instead. posix.mak:44: ============================== /export/home/User/Documents/Gits/dmd/generated/solaris/release/64/dmd -of../generated/build -g build.d ../generated/build OS="solaris" BUILD="release" MODEL="64" HOST_DMD="/export/home/User/Documents/Gits/dmd/generated/solaris/release/64/dmd" CXX="c++" AUTO_BOOTSTRAP="" DOCDIR="" STDDOC="" DOC_OUTPUT_DIR="" MAKE="gmake" VERBOSE="1" ENABLE_RELEASE="" ENABLE_DEBUG="" ENABLE_ASSERTS="" ENABLE_UNITTEST="" ENABLE_PROFILE="" ENABLE_COVERAGE="" DFLAGS="" dmd Run: /export/home/User/Documents/Gits/dmd/generated/solaris/release/64/dmd --version Run: /export/home/User/Documents/Gits/dmd/generated/solaris/release/64/dmd -color=on -h ================================================================================ STDDOC= TOLF=tolf ENABLE_COVERAGE= AUTO_BOOTSTRAP= MODEL=64 ENABLE_UNITTEST= ROOT=/export/home/User/Documents/dmd_freestanding/dmd/src/dmd/root DMD_PATH=/export/home/User/Documents/dmd_freestanding/dmd/generated/solaris/release/64/dmd DETAB=detab SYSCONFDIR=/etc GENERATED=/export/home/User/Documents/dmd_freestanding/dmd/generated VERBOSE=1 EX=/export/home/User/Documents/dmd_freestanding/dmd/src/examples RES=/export/home/User/Documents/dmd_freestanding/dmd/src/dmd/res MODEL_FLAG=-m64 CXX=c++ HOST_DMD_KIND=dmd BUILD=release MAKE=gmake GIT_HOME=https://github.com/dlang OS=solaris ZIP=zip HOST_DMD_VERSION=2.098.0 D=/export/home/User/Documents/dmd_freestanding/dmd/src/dmd PIC_FLAG=-fPIC COMMON=/export/home/User/Documents/dmd_freestanding/dmd/src/dmd/common G=/export/home/User/Documents/dmd_freestanding/dmd/generated/solaris/release/64 C=/export/home/User/Documents/dmd_freestanding/dmd/src/dmd/backend CXX_KIND=g++ DOCDIR= COVERAGE_FLAG=-cov=ctfe INSTALL=/export/home/User/Documents/dmd_freestanding/dmd/../install DOC_OUTPUT_DIR= ENABLE_ASSERTS= ENABLE_DEBUG= HOST_DMD_RUN=/export/home/User/Documents/Gits/dmd/generated/solaris/release/64/dmd ENABLE_PROFILE= TOOLS_DIR=/export/home/User/Documents/dmd_freestanding/tools HOST_DMD_PATH=/export/home/User/Documents/Gits/dmd/generated/solaris/release/64/dmd ENABLE_RELEASE= GIT=git DOCSRC=/export/home/User/Documents/dmd_freestanding/dmd/dlang.org HOST_DMD=/export/home/User/Documents/Gits/dmd/generated/solaris/release/64/dmd TMP=/tmp/ DFLAGS=-version=MARS -w -de -fPIC -m64 -J/export/home/User/Documents/dmd_freestanding/dmd/generated/solaris/release/64 -I/export/home/User/Documents/dmd_freestanding/dmd/src -dip25 -g -color=on CXXFLAGS=-Wall -Werror -Wno-narrowing -Wwrite-strings -Wcast-qual -Wno-format -Wmissing-format-attribute -Woverloaded-virtual -pedantic -Wno-long-long -Wno-variadic-macros -Wno-overlength-strings -g -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -fno-common -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -DMARS=1 -m64 -fPIC ================================================================================ src/rt/dwarfeh.d:330: uncaught exception reached top of stack This might happen if you're missing a top level catch in your fiber or signal handler std.file.FileException@/export/home/User/Documents/Gits/dmd/generated/solaris/release/64/../../../../../phobos/std/file.d(1681): /export/home/User/Documents/dmd_freestanding/dmd/generated/solaris/release/64/VERSION: No such file or directory src/rt/dwarfeh.d:330: uncaught exception reached top of stack This might happen if you're missing a top level catch in your fiber or signal handler /bin/sh: 3579: Abort(coredump) gmake[1]: *** [posix.mak:107: dmd] Abort gmake[1]: Verzeichnis „/export/home/User/Documents/dmd_freestanding/dmd/src“ wird verlassen gmake: *** [posix.mak:8: all] Fehler 2

Sorry for double posting, but I have a small but important update: 1. I found that I had previously made some changes in druntime which might be the cause for the initial failure. 2. I pulled in the latest updates to gdc, and repeated the procedure. One of these two things fixed the initial issue. This patch was also applied to the dmd.conf: https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/13409 Now the following error occurs: gmake -C src -f posix.mak all gmake[1]: Verzeichnis „/export/home/User/dlang/dmd/src“ wird betreten posix.mak:42: ===== DEPRECATION NOTICE ===== posix.mak:43: ===== DEPRECATION: posix.mak is deprecated. Please use src/build.d instead. posix.mak:44: ============================== /export/home/User/Documents/Gits/dmd/generated/solaris/release/64/dmd -of../generated/build -g build.d /usr/bin/ld: /export/home/User/Documents/Gits/dmd/generated/solaris/release/64/../../../../../phobos/generated/solaris/release/64/libphobos2.a(socket_6a6_2c33.o): undefined reference to symbol 'gethostbyaddr@@SUNW_0.7' /usr/bin/ld: /lib/amd64/libnsl.so.1: error adding symbols: DSO missing from command line collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status Error: linker exited with status 1 gmake[1]: *** [posix.mak:111: ../generated/build] Fehler 1 gmake[1]: Verzeichnis „/export/home/User/dlang/dmd/src“ wird verlassen

If -lsocket and -lnsl are unconditionally required to link programs on Solaris, it might be better to place them in the DMD source code here where there are similar tweaks for both Linux and OpenBSD: https://github.com/dlang/dmd/blob/master/src/dmd/link.d#L750 Your PR at https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/13409 makes it too easy for users to accidentally destroy these needed changes. There seems to be more work needed to fix the Solaris runtime; I'll work on it shortly.

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