NetBSD Problem Report #60063

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From: ltning-netbsd-gnats@anduin.net
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Subject: binutils fails to build if system has elftools installed
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>Number:         60063
>Category:       toolchain
>Synopsis:       binutils fails to build if system has elftools installed
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    toolchain-manager
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Mar 07 19:00:00 +0000 2026
>Last-Modified:  Sun Mar 08 11:00:02 +0000 2026
>Originator:     Eirik Øverby
>Release:        11.0-RC2
>Organization:
The Floppy Museum
>Environment:
FreeBSD motherfucker 15.0-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE-p3 releng/15.0-n281008-5cf7232732d5 GENERIC amd64

>Description:
binutils fails to build on a system with the `elfutils` package installed because HAVE_LIBDEBUGINFOD gets set but the required header file (elfutils/debuginfod.h) is not in the NetBSD source tree.
>How-To-Repeat:
Install elfutils on host system (in my case, FreeBSD-15).
Attempt to build tools.
>Fix:
Adding --with-debuginfod=no to tools/binutils/Makefile allows the tools build to complete correctly:

diff --git a/tools/binutils/Makefile b/tools/binutils/Makefile
index c56085182bd3..b9342d8e0e09 100644
--- a/tools/binutils/Makefile
+++ b/tools/binutils/Makefile
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ BASE_CONFIGURE_ARGS= \
        --target=${MACHINE_GNU_PLATFORM} \
        --enable-initfini-array=yes \
        --enable-default-execstack=no \
+       --with-debuginfod=no \
        ${BRANDING}

 CONFIGURE_ARGS=        --disable-nls --disable-werror \

>Audit-Trail:
From: "Christos Zoulas" <christos@netbsd.org>
To: gnats-bugs@gnats.NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: PR/60063 CVS commit: src/tools/binutils
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2026 14:06:51 -0500

 Module Name:	src
 Committed By:	christos
 Date:		Sat Mar  7 19:06:51 UTC 2026

 Modified Files:
 	src/tools/binutils: Makefile

 Log Message:
 PR/60063: Eirik Øverby: binutils fails to build if system has elftools
 installed, because there is no elfutils/debuginfod.h.


 To generate a diff of this commit:
 cvs rdiff -u -r1.42 -r1.43 src/tools/binutils/Makefile

 Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
 copyright notices on the relevant files.

From: "Martin Husemann" <martin@netbsd.org>
To: gnats-bugs@gnats.NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: PR/60063 CVS commit: [netbsd-11] src/tools/binutils
Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2026 10:56:28 +0000

 Module Name:	src
 Committed By:	martin
 Date:		Sun Mar  8 10:56:28 UTC 2026

 Modified Files:
 	src/tools/binutils [netbsd-11]: Makefile

 Log Message:
 Pull up following revision(s) (requested by hgutch in ticket #207):

 	tools/binutils/Makefile: revision 1.43

 PR/60063: Eirik Øverby: binutils fails to build if system has elftools
 installed, because there is no elfutils/debuginfod.h.


 To generate a diff of this commit:
 cvs rdiff -u -r1.39 -r1.39.2.1 src/tools/binutils/Makefile

 Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
 copyright notices on the relevant files.

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