Pkgsrc on IRIX

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Introduction

SGI no longer packages 'freeware' for IRIX, as it was discontinued in 2006. Nekoware aims to be a community-driven replacement but I've found many packages to be compiled with far too many dependancies (vim needing GTK, etc) and not everything I want is available. Therefore, much like my experience with Opensolaris, I turned to pkgsrc...

Build machine

Here's the `hinv` output:

 2 300 MHZ IP30 Processors
 CPU: MIPS R12000 Processor Chip Revision: 2.3
 FPU: MIPS R12010 Floating Point Chip Revision: 0.0
 Main memory size: 2048 Mbytes
 Xbow ASIC: Revision 1.3
 Instruction cache size: 32 Kbytes
 Data cache size: 32 Kbytes
 Secondary unified instruction/data cache size: 2 Mbytes
 Integral SCSI controller 0: Version QL1040B (rev. 2), single ended
   Disk drive: unit 1 on SCSI controller 0
 Integral SCSI controller 1: Version QL1040B (rev. 2), single ended
   CDROM: unit 6 on SCSI controller 1
 IOC3/IOC4 serial port: tty1
 IOC3/IOC4 serial port: tty2
 IOC3 parallel port: plp1
 Graphics board: ESI with texture option
 Graphics board: ESI
 Integral Fast Ethernet: ef0, version 1, pci 2
 Iris Audio Processor: version RAD revision 12.0, number 1
 uname -a => IRIX64 IRIS 6.5 01090133 IP30

The machine is running a fresh install of IRIX 6.5.29.

Bootstrapping pkgsrc using gcc

As of pkgsrc 2007q1 pkgsrc bootstraps out of the box, unlike some earlier versions that have problems with PRIu64.

Download the SGI freeware binary of gcc from SGI freeware and read the documentation.

Make sure you have compiler_dev.sw.base installed (notably c_dev and c++_dev). These can be found on your IRIX 6.5 developer foundation CD.

Install the gcc tardist using the `tardist` command as root.

Add /usr/freeware/bin to your $PATH.

Patch your spec file if you want to default gcc to 64 bit mips4 mode as noted here or download a pre-patched spec. I had to patch on a freebsd box because IRIX' patch didn't like the diff.

Download pkgsrc 2007q1 or later from netbsd's ftp and untar it to /usr.

cd into /usr/pkgsrc/bootstrap, set CC=gcc and ./bootstrap

TO BE CONTINUED

Build problems

devel/libtool

READ THIS

Libtool seems very prone to configuring itself incorrectly on IRIX. It has an issue with an incorrect global_symbol_pipe and it also has a problem with linking C++ shared libraries. Somehow, I've got it doing both correctly now, but I'm unsure of what is critical to change (I suspect removing the system sed from the $PATH is at least one of the 'fixes').

lang/perl5

Configure fails with invalid option -64 or some such nonsense, edit the pkgsrc Makefile and remove it.

In 32 bit mode, perl is a royal bitch. It's absolutely convinced that you want to build it in 64 bit mode on IRIX64. you have to edit the hints/irix_6 file to tell it not to do the -mabi=64 crap. Also, you need to add -lpthreads to libs in the toplevel Makefile. This was a major pain, might post detailed changes if I can ever be bothered to do it again...

fonts/fontconfig

Makes dumbass assumptions about the system. Here's a patch for pkgsrc's makefile to make it work:

 diff -r1.62 Makefile
 30a31
 > CONFIGURE_ARGS+=      --libdir=/usr/pkg/lib --includedir=/usr/pkg/include --with-arch=mips4
 32a34,35
 > LDFLAGS+=-L/usr/pkg/lib
 >

archivers/unzip

The compiler coredumps when building. To fix:

 bmake build (wait for it to segfault)
 cd work/unzip*
 vi Makefile (and remove the definition of LF2)
 gmake clean; gmake generic2 (generic doesn't work..?)
 cd ../../
 bmake install clean

lang/ruby

For 32 bit mode, ensure that -n32 is in LDFLAGS and LDSHARED in the Makefile.

Additionally, you need to ensure that socket.c includes xti.h. This should be done by getting configure to set HAVE_XTI_H by adding xti.h to the 'for ac_header in ..' loop in configure and then checking for that ifdef in socket.c. If you don't do this not all of the socket parameters will be defined right.

Also: install devel/byacc and set

 TOOLS_PLATFORM.yacc?=       /usr/pkg/bin/yacc

in /usr/pkg/etc/mk.conf to avoid using the ancient IRIX yacc/bison.

See also my Bug report and patch for <xti.h>

graphics/tiff

This actually builds fine after you have a working libtool.

textproc/groff

groff by default depends on netpbm which depends on tiff, which won't work on 64 bit systems, so disable that stuff:

 PKG_OPTIONS.groff=      -x11 -groff-docs

If groff complains about a broken C++ compiler:

CXX=                    /usr/freeware/bin/g++

bmake clean and try to build it again.

After this, groff doesn't even work right, eqn is missing /usr/pub/eqnchar (not sure why it's looking there) and groff is missing tmac.an. I sorta "fixed" this by stealing the eqnchar file from the netbsd install on my alpha and by doing the following symlinks:

 ln -sf /usr/pkg/share/groff/1.19.2/tmac /usr/lib/tmac
 ln -sf /usr/lib/tmac/an.tmac /usr/lib/tmac/tmac.an

No idea what the proper fix is, I assume there's some IRIX config file that's wrong or something...

devel/ncurses

Builds fine with a valid libtool.

fonts/ttmkfdir2

If it complains about 'optarg' being undeclared it seems to be caused by pkgsrc using the wrong getopt.h header. I manually edited commandline.cpp to have

 #include "/usr/include/getopt.h"

instead of

 #include <getopt.h>

and it seemed to fix it, changing the order of the -I parameters to gcc might do it too...

devel/glib2

Fails with "/usr/pkg/bin/libtool[4381]: syntax error at line 1 : `|' unexpected". I think this is caused by there being '| |' in the command line generated by libtool. Apparently some command is being omitted, but I don't know what or why...

Make sure you build this with -lpthread or GTK2 will fail its configure test.

lang/python24

Dunno. Seems broken somehow, haven't figured it out yet.

Update: I did actually get this to build in 32 bit mode, but I forgot to document it and now I can't remember what I did... :(

Update2: Add -n32 to LDSHARED and BDSHARED in work/Python-2.X/Makefile to make it compile in 32 bit mode.

lang/erlang

The build will fail with an undeclared shiftleft in os_mon. Use the patch from here (you may have to remove the DOS style newlines...)

The install will fail because IRIX' `chmod` doesn't support the -f parameter. Run `grep chmod **/Makefile*` to find the affected makefiles and remove the use of -f

wip/esdl

To fix the undeclared declaration of 'refc' use the patch from here. If you're using 64 bit mode you need to edit c_src/Makefile and set GL_LIBS to use ${OGLDIR}/lib64.

devel/pcre

If this fails with the 'unexpected |' error, rebuild libtool-base. This probably will fix glib2 too...

multimedia/libmp4v2

Doesn't build, don't care to even investigate why.

audio/musicpd

Before you build libao ensure you've enabled IRIX support in the Makefile.common. Check if the irix plugin has been built by doing `ls /usr/pkg/lib/ao/plugins-2`

Add the following to the pkgsrc Makefile:

 LDFLAGS+= -lgen
 CONFIGURE_ARGS+= --enable-ao

You can find an init script Here.

audio/flac

Fails to build libFlac++.so.7.0 for some reason. I think this is related to the ncurses problem. I just edited the FLAC++ stuff out of the Makefile and did a bmake install clean. Very bad, but I needed it built.

audio/libsndfile

CFLAGS incorrectly include -pipe in the makefiles. Fix this somehow and it'll build.

 perl -pi -e 's/-pipe//' **/Makefile

graphics/glitz

Inappropiate #include <stdint.h>. I've modified one of the pkgsrc patches to take care of this:

Edit patches/patch-ab and change:

 #  if defined(__OpenBSD__)

to

 #  if defined(__OpenBSD__) || defined(sgi)

you'll have to regenerate the patch checksum too; remove the line for patch-ab from distinfo and do:

 digest sha1 patch-ab >> ../distinfo

to regenerate the checksum for patch-ab

audio/portaudio

This port is fucked. I got it to build though:

  • bmake configure
  • Edit the work/portaudio Makefile
  • Ensure /usr/pkg/bin/install-sh is being used for INSTALL
  • Add -laudio -lpthread to DLL_LIBS
  • Set OTHER_OBJS = pa_sgi/pthread-pa_sgi.o

ENSURE YOUR LIBTOOL IS WORKING CORRECTLY

lang/gcc34

This is a big one. You need to fix several getopt.h problems, you need to edit the spec file in work/obj/gcc to remove the space after the -R several times(it comes back again and again). You need to edit the Makefile in work/obj/mips-sgi-irix6.5/libstdc++-v3 and work/obj/mips-sgi-irix6.5/libobjc and comment out the MULTIDIRS line. I have obtained a working gcc 3.4 compiler using this method with SGI's freeware gcc 3.3 compiler as the host.

graphics/blender

NOTE: I haven't got blender to build within the pkgsrc framework yet, but I can get it to (mostly?)build using all the dependencies installed from pkgsrc.

Documentation on doing this for 2.45 is coming.

www/firefox

Fails to build. I can get it to compile but I'm left with some unresolved C++ symbols.

security/sudo

Add c++ to USE_LANGUAGES in the pkgsrc Makefile.

fonts/Xft2

Add c++ to USE_LANGUAGES in the pkgsrc Makefile.

mail/postfix

Add -ldb to AUXLIBS in the pkgsrc Makefile.

To enable logging add the following to /etc/syslog.conf and kill -HUP the syslog process:

 # mail logging
 mail.info   /var/adm/maillog

Ensure that the whitespace between the facilty and the logfile is a tab, NOT a space!

Also, ensure that alias_maps and alias_database are set to hash:/etc/mail/aliases in main.cf.

You can find an init script Here.

x11/wxGTK

Builds fine with a valid libtool.

To install it correctly, remove the loop from the Makefile that loops over WX_LINGUAS.

audio/audacity

This port has quite a few problems. You need to disable nyquist and portmixer, you need to add the following to AudioIO.cpp:

 #ifdef sgi
 #include <alloca.h>
 #endif

Also, the configuration of the included libs doesn't work right, it passes -Wl,-R directives to the linker which makes it fail. I don't know how to fix this directly, so I just edited the configuration parameters and ran it manually. You also need to add -laudio to the LIBS in the work/audacity/src/Makefile to deal with unresolved symbols. If you built the pthread version of SGI portaudio, you need to add -lpthreads too.

Useful links