Re: Problem building x11/nvidia-driver; ref. n245494-6827435548d2

On Wed, 17 Mar 2021 05:08:50 -0700
David Wolfskill <david_at_catwhisker.org> wrote:

> My laptop is currently running main-n245489-15b82e00a164; after updating
> sources to n245498-096a84721670, I am performing a source-based update.
> 
> A simialr update on my build machine (which is headless, and thus does
> not use anything related to X11) was successful.
> 
> The laptop is set up to rebuild x11/nvidia-driver when the kernel
> is updated.
> 
> The buildkernel step on it fails with:
> 
> ...
> awk -f /usr/src/sys/conf/kmod_syms.awk nvidia-modeset.ko  export_syms | xargs -J% objcopy % nvidia-modeset.ko
> ===> lib (all)
> ===> lib/libglvnd (all)  
> ...
> ===> x11/driver (all)
> ===> x11/extension (all)
> ===> doc (all)  
> make[6]: "/usr/share/mk/bsd.man.mk" line 53: Malformed conditional (${MK_MANSPLITPKG} == "no")
> make[6]: Fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
> make[6]: stopped in /common/S4/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/sys/CANARY/common/ports/x11/nvidia-driver/work/NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86_64-460.56/doc
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop.
> 
> 
> On reviewing the list of files changed in 15b82e00a164..096a84721670, I
> note a couple of promising-looking candidates:
> 
>  share/mk/bsd.opts.mk                |   1 +
>  share/mk/src.opts.mk                |   1 -
> 
> Reviewing the commit log for share/mk/bsd.opts.mk, I see that the most
> recent entry is:
> 
> | commit 6827435548d257c672f934db5c6ff01012d96995
> | Author: Jung-uk Kim <jkim_at_FreeBSD.org>
> | Date:   Tue Mar 16 14:16:10 2021 -0400
> | 
> |     pkgbase: Fix building out-of-tree manual pages
> |     
> |     c7e6cb9e08d6 introduced MK_MANSPLITPKG but it was not available for
> |     building out-of-tree manual pages.  For example, x11/nvidia-driver fails
> |     with the following error:
> |     
> |     ===> doc (all)
> |     make[3]: "/usr/share/mk/bsd.man.mk" line 53: Malformed conditional (${MK_MANSPLITPKG} == "no")
> |     make[3]: Fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
> |     
> |     Move the definition from src.opts.mk to bsd.opts.mk to make it visible.
> 
> which looks ... apropos.
> 
> Indeed, it appears that the n245494-6827435548d2 change was intended to
> fix the issue that I am now just seeing.
> 
> But I readily confess that I have neither familairity nor expertise
> with share/mk/* (and that delving into it reminds me of "You are
> in a mazy twist of passages, all different")
> 
> So...  help?  What do I need to do to be able to build the kernel now?
> 
> (E.g., if I need to just skip building x11/nvidia-driver once, get
> everything installed, then build "normally" (with x11/nvidia-driver)
> -- that's fine; I just need a clue.)
> 

For me trying to build nvidia-driver along with the kernel always fails
miserably.

My tree is at 096a8472167..c96151d3350  main.

Building the kernel on its own followed by building nvidia-driver in
the ports tree worked for me with no problems (but I didn't install
either one of them yet).

-- 
Gary Jennejohn