Re: [PATCH] gnu: libpeas: Update to 1.12.1, add arguments and disable tests.

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Federico Beffa <beffa@ieee.org> skribis:

> This package, up to now, is the only one experiencing some
> side-effects from the gobject-introspection patch that we adopted from
> nix and which installs the full path name of shared libraries in
> .typelib and .gir files.
>
> The side-effect here is that some tests fail because:
>
> * they are executed before installation (solvable by swapping 'check
> and 'install phases) and

That’s not a very good sign though.  In general, it should be possible
to run tests before installation.

> * because it makes use of libtool convenience libraries (libraries
> which are only intermediate steps and are not installed). This is
> implemented by specifying a fake installation directory called
> "/nowhere" which, of course, does not exists. This is the error
> message:
>
> /tmp/nix-build-libpeas-1.12.1.drv-0/libpeas-1.12.1/tests/libpeas/.libs/extension-c:11955):
> libpeas-ERROR **: Unhandled warning: (null): Failed to load shared
> library '/nowhere/libintrospection-1.0.so.0' referenced by the
> typelib: /nowhere/libintrospection-1.0.so.0: cannot open shared object
> file: No such file or directory

Does it mean that it’s trying to dlopen a convenience library?  This
shouldn’t work anyway, right?

Thanks for investigating!

Ludo’.