Re: GNU Shishi fails to build

[Ludovic Courtès]

Nikita Karetnikov <address@hidden> skribis:

>> Yes, many GNU packages suffer from this.  Perhaps you can just reuse one
>> of the *gets-undeclared*.patch already available under
>> distro/packages/patches?
>
> How to do it? "m4-gets-undeclared.patch" refers to a different
> file. Lines are different too.

As I said, there are several such files.  Chances are that one of them
will fit.

>> In fact, it’s undefined in libtasn1 3.0.
>
>> I suppose it may be enough to just add:
>
>>   (arguments
>>    `(#:configure-flags
>>       
>> '("CPPFLAGS=-DMAX_ERROR_DESCRIPTION_SIZE=ASN1_MAX_ERROR_DESCRIPTION_SIZE")))
>
>> Can you try that?
>
> Failed with the same error. (I attached the file.)

Then you need to look at the log.  It could be that CPPFLAGS isn’t
honored (a bug in the build system, but that’d be surprising here.)

You could try #:make-flags instead of #:configure-flags.

> By the way, what is the difference between "(system)" and "(system
> cross-system)"?

The latter is used when cross-compiling, which isn’t implemented yet.

Anyway, since you don’t refer to ‘system’ here, you can just write
‘arguments’ as shown above.

Thanks,
Ludo’.