Re: 1.9.11 ffi reference bug

[steve tell]

On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, Greg Troxel wrote:

> I am trying to get guile-gnome-platform 0.16.1 to build on NetBSD via
> pkgsrc.  g-wrap 1.9.11 has g-wrap-2.0-guile.pc.in which contains:
>
> Libs: -L${libdir} -lgwrap-guile-runtime -lgwrap-core-runtime @GUILE_LDFLAGS@ 
> @LIBFFI_LIBS_INSTALLED@
> Cflags: @STD_CFLAGS@ -I${includedir} @GUILE_CFLAGS@ @LIBFFI_CFLAGS_INSTALLED@
>
> This seems buggy for two reasons:
>
> 1) the _INSTALLED variant of LIBFFI_CFLAGS is not substituted by configure:
>
> gdt 276 /usr/pkgsrc/devel/g-wrap/work/g-wrap-1.9.11/guile > egrep LIBFFI_CFL 
> ../config.status
> s,@LIBFFI_CFLAGS@,|#_!!_#|-I/usr/pkg/include  ,g
>
> 2) libffi is a dependency, so the .pc file should just use the normal
> dependency mechanism.
>
> Is anyone else seeing this problem?
>
> gdt 279 /usr/pkgsrc/devel/g-wrap/work/g-wrap-1.9.11/guile > pkg-config 
> g-wrap-2.0-guile --cflags
> -std=gnu99 -pthread @LIBFFI_CFLAGS_INSTALLED@ -I/usr/pkg/include
> gdt 280 /usr/pkgsrc/devel/g-wrap/work/g-wrap-1.9.11/guile > pkg-config 
> g-wrap-2.0-guile --libs
> -I/usr/pkg/include -pthread -Wl,-R/usr/pkg/lib @LIBFFI_LIBS_INSTALLED@ 
> -L/usr/pkg/lib -lgwrap-guile-runtime -lgwrap-core-runtime -lguile -lgmp -lcrypt 
> -lm -lltdl


Yes... I recently released an application that uses guile-gnome-platform, 
and had several reports of users bumping into exactly this when building 
the dependencies.

The current Fedora RPMs patch g-wrap-2.0-guile.pc.in, dropping the 
_INSTALLED suffix from those substitutions.  An OpenSuse user discovered 
the same fix, and a similar patch was posted to guile-gtk-general last 
April.


So while perhaps your suggestion (2) above ought to be considered,
if you were to patch like this, pkgsrc would at least be in good 
company...

g-wrap-1.9.11-libffi.patch
Description: g-wrap libffi patch