Re: qemu with gtk3

[Robert Swindells <rjs%fdy2.co.uk@localhost>]

On Thu, 3 Aug 2023 16:41:07 +0200
Tobias Nygren <tnn%NetBSD.org@localhost> wrote:

>> On Thu, 03 Aug 2023 23:32:37 +0900
>> Ryo ONODERA <ryo%tetera.org@localhost> wrote:
>> 
>> > Hi,
>> > 
>> > This patch fixes my build of pkgsrc/emulators/qemu with gtk3 option.
>> > 
>> > Thank you
>> > 
>> 
>> I don't think this patch is correct and /if/ it works it does so
>> by coincidence. Neither glib2 nor gtk3 have dependencies on pkgsrc
>> libintl so why should qemu have a dependency when it only asks
>> to link with gtk3?
>
> Looking further, how does this patch even change anything?
> gtk3's bl3.mk already has:
>
> .include "../../devel/gettext-lib/buildlink3.mk"
>
> Which should only pick up native libintl, which is a no-op.
> Does the patch really fix the reported problem where it fails
> when pkgsrc gettext is already installed on the system?

The patch doesn't fix the build for me.

The pkgsrc gettext-lib package gets pulled in by bison, to get qemu to
build with the gtk3 option I had to rebuild bison with -nls.