Troubles with building Xenocara on OpenBSD. In included picture is end
of the output of the `make build` executed in the /usr/xenocara
directory. I was following the release(8) manual page.
reddit / BSD

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qci · 2022-02-13 18:57

Make sure you don't change the root shell and the default locale.
Weird things like these can happen.

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zielonykid1234 · 2022-02-13 19:58

I'm sure.

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Current_Hearing_6138 · 2022-02-13 23:53

I have yet to have a single program build using the supplied makefile.
People like to make things overcomplictated, including their
makefiles.

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zielonykid1234 · 2022-02-14 02:41

What

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Current_Hearing_6138 · 2022-02-14 02:47

every time I attempt to compile from source, usually retrieved from
git, the first thing I have to do is fix makefiles.

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zielonykid1234 · 2022-02-14 13:34

I fetch sources using cvs(1) and it works perfectly, but Xenocara is
broken lol

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Current_Hearing_6138 · 2022-02-14 15:11

the problem isn't git, its people who write a 100+ line makefile

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zielonykid1234 · 2022-02-14 15:43

Do you have any idea how to build Xenocara?

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Current_Hearing_6138 · 2022-02-14 18:19

start with

gcc --include $INCLUDEDIR -o *.o *.c

then add

gcc --include $INCLUDEDIR -fpic --shared -o $LIBDIR/*.o *.c

for those files which need to be compiled as shared libraries and add
$LIBDIR to the first example.

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zielonykid1234 · 2022-02-14 20:08

Add these lines to the Makefile? I do not understand.

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jggimi · 2022-02-14 21:28

Were you using `-j` again as you apparently did with your  [userland b
uild](https://www.reddit.com/r/BSD/comments/sqtufg/getting_errors_whil
e_doing_a_release_of_openbsd/)?  Using `-j` is not recommended in
release(8), and might again be the cause of your problems.

Please note that release(8) describes the provisioning required for
`/usr/xobj`.  Just like `/usr/obj`, which you had misconfigured, it
must be owned by user `build`, in group `wobj`.  The release(8) man
page also recommends the directory be empty before beginning the
build.  Make sure it is correctly owned and has the correct file
access modes, as well as being empty before beginning your build
again.

Xenocara has additional build details in `/usr/xenocara/README` which
may be helpful.

If you're still having problems after restarting the build with a
correctly configured and clean object directory, consider logging the
exact commands you enter as well as the output errors that you've been
photographing.  The script(1) utility can be helpful for capturing
this.

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zielonykid1234 · 2022-02-14 21:40

I am going to clean the sources and objects directories and try again
doing the release.

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Current_Hearing_6138 · 2022-02-14 23:06

just use your own makefile with something similar to that. Adjust it
as necessary.

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zielonykid1234 · 2022-02-14 23:15

I'll try 🥲

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jggimi · 2022-02-15 02:18

I don't think you've been getting OpenBSD-specific advice here.  As an
example, `gcc` is only available as a built-in compiler with the
alpha, hppa, landisk, luna88k, and sparc64 architectures.  OpenBSD's
major architectures use the clang / LLVM toolchain instead.