On 23/06/25 11:09, Renato Botelho wrote:
FreeBSD has a libsysinfo package which contains GNU libc's sysinfo port.
Some users reported git 2.50.0 was failing to build when this port is
installed and it happened because configure script detected libsysinfo
but -lsysinfo was not added to LDFLAGS, ending up with following error:
scalar.o common-main.o libgit.a xdiff/lib.a reftable/libreftable.a
libgit.a -lz -pthread
ld: error: undefined symbol: sysinfo
This patch [1] was added to git port adding a user option to enable/
disable libsysinfo dependency and fix LDFLAGS when it's enabled.
I'm not sure about what is best approach for git project in this case.
[1] https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/blob/main/devel/git/files/
patch-configure.ac
If someone let me know what would be the desired approach here I can
work on a patch. Would you like to make that option conditional as the
patch did? Or detect if OS is FreeBSD and do something different?
--
Renato Botelho
