From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Federico Beffa <beffa@ieee.org>
Cc: Guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: libpeas: Update to 1.12.1, add arguments and disable tests.
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 21:39:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h9vi1ref.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKrPhPPfjJmCYTUJdMKq0xiGRJuD=V8NUThfjqFRdNBw5WXHtA@mail.gmail.com> (Federico Beffa's message of "Tue, 20 Jan 2015 18:52:57 +0100")
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’.
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-20 17:52 [PATCH] gnu: libpeas: Update to 1.12.1, add arguments and disable tests Federico Beffa
2015-01-21 13:01 ` Federico Beffa
2015-01-22 20:43 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-01-22 20:39 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
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