Re: Two PLIST issues on Debian (devel/gettext, lang/mono)

[Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-usenet2012%yahoo.com@localhost>]

On Wed, 12 Jun 2019 at 15:26, Jason Bacon <outpaddling%yahoo.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> On 2019-06-12 05:19, Sijmen J. Mulder wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Debian 4.9 I needed the following changes to build these packages:
> >
> > devel/gettext/PLIST
> >    -${PLIST.glibc}lib/preloadable_libintl.so
> >

> >
> > Sijmen
> Probably leakage issues, where configure is picking up optional
> dependencies installed by apt.
>
> This problem is particularly prevalent on Linux systems like RHEL and
> Debian, which don't separate packages from the base system (everything
> is installed in /usr/bin, /usr/lib, ...)?? Hence, it's not trivial to
> make pkgsrc ignore them.
>
> Try building on an absolutely minimal Debian system in a VM or container
> and compare the config logs.
>
> ldd might also show you shared libs it's using from outside pkgsrc.
>
> I'm seeing the libintl on CentOS 7 minimal as well, so I think the
> package is probably missing a dependency needed to build
> preloadable_libintl.so.
>
> => Checking file-check results for gettext-0.20.1
> ERROR: ************************************************************
> ERROR: The following files are in the PLIST but not in
> /home/bacon/Pkgsrc/pkgsrc/devel/gettext/work/.destdir/home/bacon/Pkgsrc/pkg:
> ERROR:
> /home/bacon/Pkgsrc/pkgsrc/devel/gettext/work/.destdir/home/bacon/Pkgsrc/pkg/lib/preloadable_libintl.so
> *** Error code 1
>
> The mcs issue is probably due to something extra on your Debian system.??
> We should either prevent it from being built or ensure that it's built
> on all platforms, possibly by adding another dependency.
>
>  ?????? JB

I did have a similar problem last week with gettext-tools. The problem
was the the "glibc" variable was not picked up by the test:

oc@e130:~/pkgsrc/pkgsrc-current/devel/gettext$ bmake show-var VARIABLE=glibc
<empty>

I'm building gettext on my pseudo-Debian LMDE and I'll report back.



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Ottavio Caruso