Re: Bug: build is broken on FreeBSD if libsysinfo is installed

From: Renato Botelho <garga@freebsd.org>
Date: Jul 1, 2025, 16:05 UTC
Message-ID: <9dce7213-0b8c-4636-ab37-4c26081aedf4@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <f32292e0-4c99-47d0-8eac-21dbc5aca302@FreeBSD.org>

On 23/06/25 11:09, Renato Botelho wrote:

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> 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?

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Renato Botelho