Scallywag glitch with texlive-collection-* packages

[Brian Inglis]

On 2020-09-15 23:13, Brian Inglis wrote:
> On 2020-09-14 23:34, ASSI wrote:
>> Brian Inglis writes:
>>> Any changes made or needed in cygport or scallywag for mingw64 packages?
>>> I've rebuilt and reuploaded both Mingw curl noarches to see if they make it.
>>
>> If you're just trying out things push to the playground branch and
>> iterate it there until it works.  You can force-push to this branch and
>> delete it afterwards if you want.
> 
> I just rebuilt all packages locally as release 2 and compared with the release 1
> config and build logs to ensure the results were identical other than the
> release number, before renumbering the cygport release back to 1 and committing
> and pushing the cygport updates to git-cygwin-packages.
> 
>> You still haven't added the necessary BUILD_REQUIRES correctly.  Btw,
> 
> AFAIR multi-line BUILD_REQUIRES strings with and without \ at EoL caused
> problems, so I have added a series of += statements to create that and DEPEND in
> the latest cygport pushes to git-cygwin-packages, and align all 3 cygports as
> much as possible for ease of comparison and maintenance (using gvimdiff).
> 
>> ZStandard is available both natively and for mingw64 in Cygwin.
> 
> Good suggestion, as it is picked up automatically by Cygwin curl config, but
> although everything appears to be the same for zlib and zstd, other than zstd
> missing a default sharedlibdir definition in zstd.pc, that is not found in the
> mingw64 config which fails:
> 
> configure:21544: checking for x86_64-w64-mingw32-pkg-config
> configure:21575: result: /usr/bin/x86_64-w64-mingw32-pkg-config
> configure:21644: checking for zlib options with pkg-config
> configure:21658: result: found
> configure:21723: checking for zlib.h
> configure:21723: result: yes
> configure:21811: found both libz and libz.h header
> configure:22106: checking for x86_64-w64-mingw32-pkg-config
> configure:22137: result: /usr/bin/x86_64-w64-mingw32-pkg-config
> configure:22206: checking for libzstd options with pkg-config
> configure:22220: result: found
> configure:22253: checking for ZSTD_createDStream in -lzstd
> configure:22284: result: no
> configure:22298: checking for zstd.h
> configure:22298: result: no
> configure:22318: error: libzstd was not found where specified!
> 
> As I am new to mingw64 packaging, any suggestions for things to try or tweaks
> for mingw64 build are welcome.
> Do I need to cross_de/sysrootize zstd.pc or something?
> 
> $ head -n19 /usr/lib/pkgconfig/*z???*.pc
> ==> /usr/lib/pkgconfig/libzstd.pc <==
> #   ZSTD - standard compression algorithm
> #   Copyright (C) 2014-2016, Yann Collet, Facebook
> #   BSD 2-Clause License (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php)
> 
> prefix=/usr
> exec_prefix=${prefix}
> includedir=${prefix}/include
> libdir=${exec_prefix}/lib
> 
> Name: zstd
> Description: fast lossless compression algorithm library
> URL: http://www.zstd.net/
> Version: 1.4.5
> Libs: -L${libdir} -lzstd
> Cflags: -I${includedir}
> 
> ==> /usr/lib/pkgconfig/zlib.pc <==
> prefix=/usr
> exec_prefix=/usr
> libdir=/usr/lib
> sharedlibdir=/usr/lib
> includedir=/usr/include
> 
> Name: zlib
> Description: zlib compression library
> Version: 1.2.11
> 
> Requires:
> Libs: -L${libdir} -lz
> Cflags: -I${includedir}

Just compared mingw package contents and found actual .pc under sys-root:

$ head -n19 /usr/*86*-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/lib/pkgconfig/*z???.pc
==> /usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/lib/pkgconfig/libzstd.pc <==
#   ZSTD - standard compression algorithm
#   Copyright (C) 2014-2016, Yann Collet, Facebook
#   BSD 2-Clause License (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php)

prefix=/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw
exec_prefix=${prefix}
includedir=${prefix}/include
libdir=${exec_prefix}/lib

Name: zstd
Description: fast lossless compression algorithm library
URL: http://www.zstd.net/
Version: 1.4.5
Libs: -L${libdir} -lzstd
Cflags: -I${includedir}

==> /usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/lib/pkgconfig/zlib.pc <==
prefix=/usr/local
exec_prefix=/usr/local
libdir=/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/lib
sharedlibdir=/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/lib
includedir=/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include

Name: zlib
Description: zlib compression library
Version: 1.2.11

Requires:
Libs: -L${libdir} -lz
Cflags: -I${includedir}

==> /usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/lib/pkgconfig/libzstd.pc <==
#   ZSTD - standard compression algorithm
#   Copyright (C) 2014-2016, Yann Collet, Facebook
#   BSD 2-Clause License (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php)

prefix=/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw
exec_prefix=${prefix}
includedir=${prefix}/include
libdir=${exec_prefix}/lib

Name: zstd
Description: fast lossless compression algorithm library
URL: http://www.zstd.net/
Version: 1.4.5
Libs: -L${libdir} -lzstd
Cflags: -I${includedir}

==> /usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/lib/pkgconfig/zlib.pc <==
prefix=/usr/local
exec_prefix=/usr/local
libdir=/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/lib
sharedlibdir=/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/lib
includedir=/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include

Name: zlib
Description: zlib compression library
Version: 1.2.11

Requires:
Libs: -L${libdir} -lz
Cflags: -I${includedir}

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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