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* Re: gobject-introspection typelibs and shared libraries
@ 2015-01-17  9:46 Federico Beffa
  2015-01-17 10:15 ` 宋文武
                   ` (2 more replies)
  0 siblings, 3 replies; 37+ messages in thread
From: Federico Beffa @ 2015-01-17  9:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: andreas, Guix-devel, Ludovic Courtès, Mark H. Weaver

>On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 10:42:42PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> If there’s consensus to install the symlink, that’s fine with me (if we
>> take that route, I would also suggest submitting a patch upstream so GCC
>> installs the symlink.)
>
>I am not in favour of adding such a symlink on our own and would rather
>keep with the standard builds as we usually do when there is no compelling
>reason to do otherwise.

That's interesting.

Consider that:

* such a symlink would have spared much frustration to Mark (see
earlier posts in this thread).

* It is likely that the update of 'gobject-introspection' to a newer
version would not have caused problems (see earlier posts in this
thread and https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-01/msg00196.html).
And, from Ludovic's comment: "So far we’ve resisted the temptation.
...", I understand that there are a few other packages which would
benefit.

* Up to now nobody could point out any *technical* drawback. (And if
we find one later, we can always revert.)

Even if an action if beneficial to, say, 1 in 100 packages without
drawbacks to the other ones and the fix of that single package is
easy, it is still worth doing. I do not see a large number of people
contributing to this project. It is therefore important to minimize
the likelihood of a required manual intervention to fix problems.
Maintaining 1000's of software packages is time consuming!

It would be the *GUIX project* the one who would benefit if decisions
would be taken based on technical arguments and merits instead of
feelings or the mood of the day.

Fede

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* gobject-introspection typelibs and shared libraries
@ 2014-12-07 14:21 Federico Beffa
  2014-12-07 20:48 ` Ludovic Courtès
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 37+ messages in thread
From: Federico Beffa @ 2014-12-07 14:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Guix-devel

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Hi,

currently the typelib files used by gobject-introspection can't find
shared libraries and require setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH.  I would like to
propose to adopt the attached patch from the nix folk which should fix
that and refer to shared libraries by absolute path.

Regards,
Fede

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--- ./giscanner/utils.py.orig	2014-08-14 22:05:05.055334080 +0200
+++ ./giscanner/utils.py	2014-08-14 22:05:24.687497334 +0200
@@ -110,17 +110,11 @@
     if dlname is None:
         return None
 
-    # Darwin uses absolute paths where possible; since the libtool files never
-    # contain absolute paths, use the libdir field
-    if platform.system() == 'Darwin':
-        dlbasename = os.path.basename(dlname)
-        libdir = _extract_libdir_field(la_file)
-        if libdir is None:
-            return dlbasename
-        return libdir + '/' + dlbasename
-    # From the comments in extract_libtool(), older libtools had
-    # a path rather than the raw dlname
-    return os.path.basename(dlname)
+    dlbasename = os.path.basename(dlname)
+    libdir = _extract_libdir_field(la_file)
+    if libdir is None:
+        return dlbasename
+    return libdir + '/' + dlbasename
 
 
 def extract_libtool(la_file):

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2015-01-17 10:40 ` ‘gcc’ vs. ‘cc’ Ludovic Courtès
2015-01-17 10:44   ` John Darrington
2015-01-17 10:47     ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-01-17 12:02   ` Federico Beffa
2015-01-17 16:27     ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-01-17 12:02 ` gobject-introspection typelibs and shared libraries Andreas Enge
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2014-12-07 14:21 Federico Beffa
2014-12-07 20:48 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-12-07 22:11   ` Federico Beffa
2014-12-08  9:22     ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-12-08 12:21       ` Federico Beffa
2014-12-08 14:51         ` Federico Beffa
2014-12-08 20:37         ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-12-09 19:30           ` Federico Beffa
2014-12-09 20:27             ` Federico Beffa
2014-12-10  4:15               ` Mark H Weaver
2014-12-09 20:58             ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-12-10  4:39             ` Mark H Weaver
2014-12-10  4:54               ` Mark H Weaver
2014-12-10  8:48                 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-12-10  8:57                   ` Federico Beffa
2014-12-10 12:56                     ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-12-16 19:45                       ` Federico Beffa
2014-12-17  7:20                         ` Mark H Weaver
2014-12-17  8:57                         ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-01-13 17:10                           ` Federico Beffa
2015-01-13 20:22                             ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-01-13 21:40                               ` Federico Beffa
2015-01-14 20:43                                 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-01-15  8:27                                   ` Federico Beffa
2015-01-15 21:42                                     ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-01-16 17:07                                       ` Federico Beffa
2015-01-16 20:47                                       ` Andreas Enge

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