[kde-freebsd] Easy for for www/webkit-qt5 on sparc64

[Guy M Broome]

Also, please pardon the typo in the subject line: should be "Easy fix for
[...]"

I haven't had my coffee yet.


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On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 8:06 AM, Guy M Broome <gmbroome at vcu.edu> wrote:

> Good morning:
>
> Noting that www/webkit-qt5 builds correctly on a variety of Tier 2
> architectures, I decided to comment out its BROKEN_sparc64 line in the port
> Makefile and see, in detail, what the issue was.
>
> After a couple hours of tinkering, it turns out to be quite simple: the
> port actually needs gmake, or at the least it doesn't like bmake in
> particular.
>
> The port's attempted usage of i386 assembly on sparc64 was due to
> Makefiles not being correctly parsed, resulting in incorrect macro
> definitions for the various .asm files.  Once USES+= gmake is set,
> www/webkit-qt5 builds and runs fine (albeit rather slowly) on sparc64.
> Tested on both 10.3 and 11.0-CURRENT (not tested on 11-STABLE yet), using
> both default system GCC 4.2 and GCC 5.4 from ports.
>
> As an added bonus, the addition of USES+= gmake also fixes a latent
> problem on all tested architectures as well (verified on sparc64, ppc64,
> and amd64): alternate definitions of CC=, CXX=, etc. are not parsed
> correctly as long as bmake is in use, and some subdirectories of
> www/webkit-qt5 will always attempt to use "c++" or "g++" even when another
> compiler is defined.  USES+= gmake handily addresses that as well.
>
> Would your team like a PR for this issue?  If so, I'll be glad to submit
> one.
>
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