Re: firefox/ rust failed to install on FreeBSD 12-CURRENT

thanks for the two great pieces of advice.


Best,
Owen

On Sat, Jun 3, 2017 at 2:26 PM, Tim Kientzle <tim_at_kientzle.com> wrote:

>
> > On Jun 1, 2017, at 11:37 PM, Jean-Sébastien Pédron <dumbbell_at_freebsd.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > On 28.05.2017 19:21, blubee blubeeme wrote:
> >> ===>  Building for rust-1.17.0
> >> ...
> >>  extracting
> >> rust-std-1.16.0-x86_64-unknown-freebsd/rust-std-x86_
> 64-unknown-freebsd/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-freebsd/lib/GNUSparseFile.0/
> librustc_llvm-74a1be1110b5d4d0.so
> >> gmake[7]: Leaving directory '/usr/ports/lang/rust/work/
> rustc-1.17.0-src'
> >> *** Error code 1
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > This failure is caused by Python 2's tarfile module not supporting
> > sparse files in archives. Python 3 supports them but the configure
> > script insists on using Python 2.
> >
> > Before a proper fix is committed, you can change the following line in
> > lang/rust/Makefile:
> > https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/blob/master/
> lang/rust/Makefile#L159
> >
> > to say (this is a single line):
> > gtar -c -C ${WRKSRC} -f -
> > rust-std-1.16.0-${RUST_ARCH_${ARCH}}-unknown-freebsd | gzip >
> > ${WRKSRC}/rustc.tbz
>
> You could add --format=ustar to the existing command line; that would
> force bsdtar to use the older "ustar" format (without any extensions that
> might confuse Python's tar file module).
>
>
> > Then, change the following line:
> > https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/blob/master/
> lang/rust/Makefile#L34
> >
> > to say:
> > BUILD_DEPENDS= cmake:devel/cmake \
> >               gtar:archivers/gtar
> >
> > This will use GNU tar instead of BSD tar to recreate the bootstrap and
> > GNU tar doesn't seem to produce sparse file entries in the archive.
>
> How ironic; using GNU tar in order to avoid having GNU sparse file
> entries.  ;-)
>
> Tim
>
>
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