Strange make error when script is started in PKGBUILD

Question

Hi
I have an extremely strange error related to make when I tried to package the -git version of Open Watcom (v2 fork)
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/open_watcom-v2-git/
When running makepkg -s, the build chokes on the following step:
building wsplice in $srcdir/watcom/bld/wmake (Makefile: posmake)
since this binary is not built, some headers are not generated and the build dies.
Doing exactly the same thing as in the PKGBUILD "build()" outside of makepkg -s
by cd-ing to $srcdir/watcom and running
source setvars.sh
./build.sh
works and stuff are building....
Anyone got an idea what could be the issue?

Answer 1

Trilby wrote:
Can you provide the actual error output?
Have you tried building manually as you describe after setting environment variables as specified in makepkg.conf?
There is no actual error output where it actually goes wrong. This is the issue I opened before I noticed that the error only happened when I used makepkg:
https://github.com/open-watcom/open-watcom-v2/issues/76
The relevant part of the $srcdir/watcom/bld/wmake/posmake is this:
wsplice: wsplice.o clibext.o
$(CC) -g wsplice.o clibext.o -o $@
usage.gh : ../h/usage.sp wsplice
./wsplice -kIS_RC -kENGLISH -f '{MSG_USAGE_BASE+%#%+, "%s"},' ../h/usage.sp -o "%n%n%n%n" $@
usageend.gh: usage.gh wsplice
./wsplice -f "%+" usage.gh -o "#define MSG_USAGE_LAST (MSG_USAGE_BASE+%#)%n" $@
cretype : ../c/cretype.c
$(CC) -o $@ $?
If I build with makepkg -s (invoking "source setvars.sh" and "./build.sh" inside PKGBUILD), this happens:
rm -f *.o *.gh
cc -g -O2 -I../h -I../../watcom/h -I../../lib_misc/h -I. -D__LINUX__ -D__UNIX__ -DUNIX -Uunix -DBOOTSTRAP -c ../../builder/c/wsplice.c
cc -g -O2 -I../h -I../../watcom/h -I../../lib_misc/h -I. -D__LINUX__ -D__UNIX__ -DUNIX -Uunix -DBOOTSTRAP -c ../../watcom/c/clibext.c
cc -o cretype ../c/cretype.c
cc -g -O2 -I../h -I../../watcom/h -I../../lib_misc/h -I. -D__LINUX__ -D__UNIX__ -DUNIX -Uunix -DBOOTSTRAP -c ../c/macros.c
In file included from ../c/macros.c:49:0:
../h/mrcmsg.h:245:23: fatal error: usageend.gh: No such file or directory
#include "usageend.gh"
^
compilation terminated.
../posmake:16: recipe for target 'macros.o' failed
If I do exactly the same thing outside of makepkg (manually "source setvars.sh" and "./build.sh"), I get this:
rm -f *.o *.gh
cc -g -O2 -I../h -I../../watcom/h -I../../lib_misc/h -I. -D__LINUX__ -D__UNIX__ -DUNIX -Uunix -DBOOTSTRAP -c ../../builder/c/wsplice.c
cc -g -O2 -I../h -I../../watcom/h -I../../lib_misc/h -I. -D__LINUX__ -D__UNIX__ -DUNIX -Uunix -DBOOTSTRAP -c ../../watcom/c/clibext.c
cc -g wsplice.o clibext.o -o wsplice
./wsplice -kIS_RC -kENGLISH -f '{MSG_USAGE_BASE+%#%+, "%s"},' ../h/usage.sp -o "%n%n%n%n" usage.gh
./wsplice -f "%+" usage.gh -o "#define MSG_USAGE_LAST (MSG_USAGE_BASE+%#)%n" usageend.gh
./cretype > isarray.gh
cc -g -O2 -I../h -I../../watcom/h -I../../lib_misc/h -I. -D__LINUX__ -D__UNIX__ -DUNIX -Uunix -DBOOTSTRAP -c ../c/macros.c
cc -g -O2 -I../h -I../../watcom/h -I../../lib_misc/h -I. -D__LINUX__ -D__UNIX__ -DUNIX -Uunix -DBOOTSTRAP -c ../c/main.c
cc -g -O2 -I../h -I../../watcom/h -I../../lib_misc/h -I. -D__LINUX__ -D__UNIX__ -DUNIX -Uunix -DBOOTSTRAP -c ../c/massert.c
cc -g -O2 -I../h -I../../watcom/h -I../../lib_misc/h -I. -D__LINUX__ -D__UNIX__ -DUNIX -Uunix -DBOOTSTRAP -c ../c/mautodep.c
cc -g -O2 -I../h -I../../watcom/h -I../../lib_misc/h -I. -D__LINUX__ -D__UNIX__ -DUNIX -Uunix -DBOOTSTRAP -c ../c/mautoomf.c
(and so on...)
Thanks to your suggestion, I also tried the manual method above but also with "source /etc/makepkg.conf" (and checked with echo that the variables were defined)
This gives exactly the same output as my previous attempt to manually build, so this is not the issue...